Category: General Fiction/Classics

Trees For the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat
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Overview: Young love, meddling relatives, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined – Philistia’s world is that of an ordinary university student, except that in occupied Palestine, and when your father is in indefinite detention, nothing is straightforward.

Philistia is closest to her childhood, and to her late grandmother and her imprisoned father, when she’s at her part-time job washing women’s bodies at the ancient Ottoman hammam in Nablus, the West Bank. A midwife and corpse washer in her time, Grandma Zahia taught Philistia the ritual ablutions and the secrets of the body: the secrets of life and death.

On the brink of adulthood, Philistia embarks on a journey through her country’s history – a magical journey, and one of loss and centuries of occupation. As trees are uprooted around her, Philistia searches for a place of refuge, a place where she can plant a memory for the ones she’s lost.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Crowded Lives: And Other Stories of Desperation and Danger by Clark Howard
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Overview: Gritty, suspenseful short fiction about criminals and other characters on the edge from an Edgar Award-winning author.

Boxer. Soldier. Columnist. Novelist. Screenwriter. Clark Howard’s diverse pursuits all figure in his award-winning short stories.

In this new collection, Howard is at his absolute best. In clear, strong prose describing tough characters and hard situations, he conveys powerful feelings — and a sympathetic view of humanity that touches your heart.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

Old Soldiers
Hit and Run
Wild Things
McCulla’s Kid
Hanging It on a Limb
New Orleans Getaway
The Marksman
The Color of Death
Crowded Lives

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Creation of the Gods (Library of Chinese Classics: Chinese-English: 4 Volumes) by Xu Zhonglin, Gu Zhizhong (Translator)
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Overview: Creation of the Gods, published in the Ming Dynasty (11368-1644), is the most popular and one of the best, if not also the best-written, Chinese classics of mythical literature.
It begins with the grand pilgrimage of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty (1700 B.C.-1100 B.C.), the most notorious tyrant in Chinese legend, to worship the Goddess Nu Wa, the creator of mankind in Chinese mythology, on her birthday. The beauty of the goddess completely bewitched the monarch and sets him on fire with lust. His poem written on the wall to express his deep love for the goddess infuriates her. She decided to punish the king and bring an end to the Shang Dynasty. The novel culminates with the crowning of King Wu of Zhou Dynasty (1066 B.C.256 B.C.) and the canonization of gods by his prime minister Jiang Ziya.

However, the Chinese was a nation mostly composed of polytheists, who believed that there were numerous gods in the Three Realms Heaven, World, and Hell-that rules over everything in this world and created various deities to suit their varied desires and needs. Most of the gods anti deities were posthumously canonized historical national heroes and upright officials who were believed to have been heavenly deities sent to this world to deliver mankind from misery. In fact the roots of many of such popular beliefs and legend are found in Creation of the Gods.

Therefore, the novel is not simply a piece of literature, but very much an agglomeration of folk beliefs and religion. It is in fact a valuable and indispensable tool in understanding the Chinese folk culture.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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El rebelde by Sadie Jones
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 0.327 MB
Overview: El final de la II Guerra Mundial parecía suponer por fin el retorno a la felicidad de los Aldridge. Sin embargo, la paz de esta familia se ve truncada con la trágica muerte de la madre en un absurdo accidente del que es testigo su hijo Lewis, un niño tranquilo y sensible de diez años. Padre e hijo afrontan la pérdida de manera muy distinta: mientras el padre contrae matrimonio rápidamente, el traumatizado pequeño empieza a comportarse de una manera poco conveniente para las rígidas normas de la época. Será el comienzo de una cadena de desgracias.

Una historia intensa y dramática que retrata magistralmente la hipocresía de la sociedad y los desencuentros familiares.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Historical Fiction

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The Trail’s End by E. L. Ripley, Ralph Compton (A Sundown Riders Novel)
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Overview: In this brand-new, suspenseful Ralph Compton Western, a reformed gambler races to unmask a murderer.

After years as a professional gambler—and a deadly shootout on a riverboat casino—Tom Calvert and his young protégé, Asher Smith, have survived an arduous journey across the frontier to Friendly Field, Idaho. The bucolic Quaker community welcomes them with open arms, and soon Tom is courting a widow and learning, to his surprise, to enjoy the quiet life.

Then an elder of Friendly Field is found murdered, and the townsfolk start whispering about the work of the devil. Tom doesn’t believe in the devil, just the evil that men do, and he resolves to solve the gruesome crime before fear causes the people of peaceful little Friendly Field to turn against one another.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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