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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A Young Girl's Diary |
An Anonymous Young Girl ( - ) |
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Gospel of The Knife http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/2007/07/gospel-of-knife.html |
Will Shetterly ( - ) http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/ |
Will Shetterly is a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and author of many novels
A long awaited kind of sequel to the acclaimed DOGLAND.
Christopher Nix is now fourteen and it's 1969. His life echoes the times as his discovery of sex, drugs, rock 'n' Roll, and Red-necks sets his life on an unexpected course.
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Around the World in 80 Days |
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) |
In an age where global travel within a limited time frame was unusual and reserved for heroic adventurers, Phileas Fogg bets his companions at the Reform Club 20,000 pounds that he can circumnavigate the world in only eighty days. Accompanied by his valet Passepartout, they attempt this feat. Despite obstacles thrown at them by man and nature, Fogg is determined that he will not be defeated. Gripping reading. |
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Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) |
Hunchbacked, one-eyed, lame and eventually deaf, Quasimodo is the bell-ringer at the Notre Dame cathedral in 15th century Paris, France. A victim of constant ridicule, Quasimodo finds greatest solace and happiness in these bells. He loves them like no other, until he happens upon the beautiful gypsy, La Esmerelda. A hunchback, an Archdeacon, a playwright and a handsome Captain - each enchanted by La Esmerelda. Accusations of sorcery, a sham marriage, mayhem and murder - The Hunchback of Notre Dame continues to entertain. |
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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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A Set of Six |
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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