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Shogun By:James Clavell Published on 2013-06-20 by Hachette UK Click The Button Below To Download The Book This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the hights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is trueand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Possible Worlds in Literary Theory By:Ruth Ronen Published on 1994-05-26 by Cambridge University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book The philosophical concept of 'possible worlds' used to explain theoretical problems of fictionality and narrativity. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Of Fiction and Faith By:W. Dale Brown Published on 1997 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Click The Button Below To Download The Book |Conducted over a five-year period by W. Dale Brown, these interviews provide a window into the personal and literary lives of a company of writers whose work continues to defy categorization. These writers talk candidly about their careers, their audiences, their approaches to writing, and their attitudes toward issues of faith. Taken together, the interviews provide a perceptive analysis of contemporary literature and a challenge to the practice of labeling books as |Christian| or |secular.|| |The volume also includes photographs, a brief introduction to each of the writers, and a chronological listing of their work.|--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The B...

The Sympathizer By:Viet Thanh Nguyen Published on 2015-04-02 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Click The Button Below To Download The Book The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as six other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true Book Preview Click The But...

My Lady Jane By:Cynthia Hand,Brodi Ashton,Jodi Meadows Published on 2016-06-07 by HarperCollins Click The Button Below To Download The Book New York Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2016 * Bustle Best Young Adult Book of 2016 * YALSA 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adults This comical, fantastical, romantical, New York Times bestselling, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey is “an uproarious historical fantasy that’s not to be missed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind YA fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help. At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problem...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream By:Harlan Ellison Published on 2014-04-29 by Open Road Media Click The Button Below To Download The Book A Grand Master of Science Fiction and the multiple-award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog presents seven stunning stories of speculative fiction. Hugo Award winner I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is living legend Harlan Ellison’s masterpiece of future warfare. In a post-apocalyptic world, four men and one woman are all that remain of the human race, brought to near extinction by an artificial intelligence. Programmed to wage war on behalf of its creators, the AI became self-aware and turned against all humanity. The five survivors are prisoners, kept alive and subjected to brutal torture by the hateful and sadistic machine in an endless cycle of violence. Presented here with six more groundbreaking and inventive tales that probe the depths of mortal experience, this collection proves why Ellison has earned the many accolades he’s received and r...

Courtney's War By:Wilbur Smith Published on 2018-09-06 by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd. Click The Button Below To Download The Book The brand new Courtney Series novel, and the much-anticipated sequel to the global bestseller WAR CRY Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives. Gerhard - despite his objections to the Nazi regime - is fighting for the Fatherland, hoping to one day have the opportunity to rid Germany of Hitler and his cronies. But as his unit is thrown into the hellish attrition of the Battle of Stalingrad, he knows his chances of survival are dwindling by the day. Meanwhile Saffron - recruited by the Special Operations Executive and sent to occupied Belgium to discover how the Nazis have infiltrated SOE's network - soon finds herself being hunted by Germany's most ruthless spymaster. Confronted by evil beyond their worst imaginings, the lovers must each make the hardest choice o...

We Were the Lucky Ones By:Georgia Hunter Published on 2017-02-14 by Penguin Click The Button Below To Download The Book NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attem...

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Fictional Realities By:J. J. A. Mooij Published on 1993 by John Benjamins Publishing Click The Button Below To Download The Book This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and unreality. The first two chapters survey the thinking about the imagination in the history of philosophy. The main trends and the main problems are discussed, particularly in respect of the (positive or negative) evaluation of imagination. The subsequent chapters investigate the role of the imagination from a closer point of view. How is it that imagination appears in literary art? Central topics of discussion are the nature of narrativity, of fictional discourse and fictional objects, of realistic fiction, of symbolism and metaphor. Moreover, the similarities (both re...

Eleanor & Park By:Rainbow Rowell Published on 2013-02-26 by St. Martin's Griffin Click The Button Below To Download The Book #1 New York Times Best Seller! |Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book.|-John Green, The New York Times Book Review Bono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, we're 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. A New York Times ...

Masterplots Revised Category Edition, American Fiction Series By:Frank Northen Magill Published on 1985 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

So Long a Letter By:Mariama Bâ Published on 1989 by Heinemann Click The Button Below To Download The Book An intense and poised novel in the form of a letter written by Ramatoulaye, who has recently been widowed. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Make Lemonade By:Virginia Euwer Wolff Published on 1993-05-15 by Macmillan Click The Button Below To Download The Book In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

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The Magic of the Lost Temple By:Sudha Murty Published on 2015-11-25 by Penguin UK Click The Button Below To Download The Book City girl Nooni is surprised at the pace of life in her grandparents’ village in Karnataka. But she quickly gets used to the gentle routine there and involves herself in a flurry of activities, including papad making, organizing picnics and learning to ride a cycle, with her new-found friends. Things get exciting when Nooni stumbles upon an ancient fabled stepwell right in the middle of a forest. Join the intrepid Nooni on an adventure of a lifetime in this much-awaited book by Sudha Murty that is heart-warming, charming and absolutely unputdownable. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Marlena By:Julie Buntin Published on 2017-04-04 by Henry Holt and Company Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book of the Month Club Indie Next Pick Nylon's Debut Book Club Pick Barnes and Noble Discover Pick The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts—first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill—Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back. Told in a haunting dialogue between past and present, Marlena is an unforgettable story o...