Seventeen  |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1916.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
Here Tarkington satirizes first love.
"Every man and woman over fifty ought to read Seventeen. It is not only a skillful analysis of adolescent love, it is, with all its side-splitting mirth, a tragedy. No mature person who reads this novel will ever seriously regret his lost youth or wish he were young again...." -- William Lyon Phelps, The Advance of the English Novel
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| The Turmoil |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1915.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
The story uses a tale of two families following different trajectories but linked by romance to provide a glimpse of the changes induced by industrialization and urbanization.
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| Missing Persons |
| Lewis Shiner ( - ) http://www.lewisshiner.com |
Lewis Shiner is a two-time finalist for the Nebula (Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart), a finalist for the Philip K. Dick (Frontera), and won the World Fantasy award for Glimpses.
In Missing Persons we collect three of Lewis's own favorite suspense / mystery short stories, written between 1998 and 2004.
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| Overclocked. |
| Cory Doctorow ( - ) http://www.craphound.com |
Overclocked is a reminder that we can't hope to keep up and shouldn’t bother. But we do need to keep alert, to keep ourselves caffeinated, to run as fast as we can - if we hope to stay in the same place. Getting ahead? That's, alas, a thing of the past. -- Rick Kleffel, NPR
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| On the Decay of the Art of Lying |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
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| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
| William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
Shakespeare's best known play and the most quoted work of the English language.
Hamlet's father is dead and he struggles with the desire for revenge.
The play uses this backdrop to explore intrigue, incest, desire, and what is important in life.
Regularly included in lists of the greatest works of all time. |
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| Deserted Cities of the Heart |
| Lewis Shiner ( - ) http://www.lewisshiner.com |
Lewis Shiner is a two-time finalist for the Nebula (Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart), a finalist for the Philip K. Dick (Frontera), and won the World Fantasy award for Glimpses.
Lewis has released the first three chapters of Deserted Cities of the Heart. The novel begins in contemporary Mexico where Rolling Stone reporter John Carmichael has been drawn in his search of news ...
This taste will leave you wanting more...
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