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Author
Publisher
Leiden University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene...
4842) Kiss from Maddalena
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"It is 1943, and Santa Cecilia has become a village of women. All the young men are away at war, except for Vito Leone, his best friend, and the shopkeeper's son. When Vito falls in love with Maddalena Picinelli, the shy and beautiful daughter of the town's most powerful family, a few obstacles appear in his path. Maddalena's sassy, iron-willed sister Carolina thinks he's a penniless fool. Her parents think his crazy mother has turned him into a mammoni,...
4843) Focused on Murder
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Britt Johansson, a tough photojournalist with a big heart and bad social skills follows a coed's murder to the wilds of the U.S./Canadian border and lands in the crosshairs of an international crime ring... Only this time she's in way over her head. --Provided by publisher.
4844) My Time With Papa
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A touching story about a little girl remembering special times with her Papa.
4845) It's a Sin to Kill
Author
Publisher
Prologue Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"She lived fast . . . and she loved fast.Everyone who knew Helene Camden had a good reason for wanting her dead: *Hal Camden - her husband, who knew she was two-timing him all over Florida *Tom Ferris - who knew all the angles . . . and the curves *Charlie Ames - who woke up in the dead woman's bed *Ben Sheldon - who had an eye for business . . . and for anything in skirts *A thrill-packed suspense tale with a stunning surprise ending!."--...
4847) In Memory of Junior
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In the Bales-McCord family there are several old people contemplating their final resting places. Two of them--Glenn and Laura Bales--are in bad shape, and everybody is wondering which one will go first. Join them in Summerlin as they attend to the business of passing on--and passing down. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION."--
4848) Matters of Doubt
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife's suicide. Once a hardcharging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. When a scruffy, tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving his mother's cold case murder, Cal wants to say no. But the kid, who calls himself Picasso, has ridden a bike from Portland, and something about his determination touches...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Feeling quite ordinary, a plain gray moth sadly compares itself to its more exotic kin, such as the Luna Moth, the Spider Moth, and the Hummingbird Moth. But then a young boy explains just how special the ordinary moth really is.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior-even the rules governing time and gravity-are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he lost it or how to find it-but as he searches the chaotic, often surreal streets of Bombay, he meets an absurd and marvelous cast of characters who offer him clues: a woman selling rainbows, a beggar living...
4851) Blueprint for a Kiss
Author
Publisher
Ambleside Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Blueprint for a Kiss is nominated for a 2015 RITA award from Romance Writers of America. You can design a perfect life, then a woman comes along and messes it all up! Prescott Chance is the go-to architect for the wealthy and famous, which has made him more wealthy and famous than he's ever wanted to be. He turns down more commissions than he accepts and is extremely private. Holly Legere is barely making ends meet between rent and student loans....
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memoryo Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in MissouriThroughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal,...
Publisher
George R. Graham
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents
Fiction, Literature and Articles
The Village Doctor
The General Court and Jane Andrews’ Firkin of Butter
Was She a Coquette?
An Indian Legend
The Islets of the Gulf (continued)
The Stratagem
The Man with the Big Box
The Sportsman
Review of New Books
Poetry, Music and Fashion
Le Follet
Brain Work and Hand Work
The Invalid Stranger
Jenny Low
Lines For Music
The Lay Of The Wind
Echo
Sonnet to ——
Ode to Time
A Winter’s...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Aspiring race car driver Kate Reilly goes looking for a full-time ride in the American Le Mans Series—and stumbles over a dead driver. When she takes that driver’s job just hours later, she also takes pole position on the list of suspects in his murder. Suddenly she’s in the hot seat with little time to clear her name and get ready to race a Corvette at Lime Rock Park.
Amid suspicion, Kate buckles down, quickly getting to know the race car...
Publisher
Harold Monro
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Georgian Poetry" refers to a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom.
The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named "Georgian Poetry", published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh, the first volume of which contained poems written in 1911...
4856) Winter Kills
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
President Timothy Kegan is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Philadelphia; a single shooter is caught and convicted. Fourteen years later, the slain President's brother, Nick, hears a deathbed confession that upends everything he thought he knew about his brother's death. In a desperate rush to find the real killer, Nick must navigate the murky waters of a conspiracy that involves the CIA, oil barons, the police force, movie stars, and people...
4857) Frag Box
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Herman Jackson never thought his past would catch up with him, least of all via a murdered Vietnam veteran named Charlie Victor. Jackson used to run a bookie operation in Detroit, but his bail bond business in St. Paul is much safer. And if Charlie Victor wasn't his best client, he was at least a steady one, paying his bonding fee out of a secret stash he called his frag box. Then Charlie is beaten to death on a public street in broad daylight. Strangely,...
4858) Paper Souls
Author
Publisher
Booktrope
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the bestselling genre-defining Enchanters series, comes a new literary tour de force about Emily, a young woman balancing two worlds between her fingertips: the one that is real to her and the one that is real to everyone else. . . The question is: which one will she choose? Never romanticizing what it means to be a twenty-something schizophrenic in a world broken by normalcy and half-baked fairytales, Allie Burke's latest novel...
4859) Hey, Liberal!
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, Simon Fleming, the white son of an activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged to carry out the family's commitment to school integration. He is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simon's quest for survival introduces him to Clyde, a gangbanger turned political militant; Louis, a brilliant,...
4860) Green Monster
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After a second World Championship in four years, the Boston Red Sox have finally buried the Curse of the Bambinoaor have they? Sox owner Louis Kenwood receives an extortion note signed "Babe Ruth" claiming that the 2004 World Series was fixed and demanding $50 million to keep the information from getting to the press and the Commissioneras office. If the allegation of a fix becomes public, Kenwood fears irreparable damage to the value of his franchise...
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