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Essential Fiction - May 2014
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"- John Barrymore
In the time of the butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9781448733705
ISBN-10: 1448733707
A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep "accident.".
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1979
ISBN-13: 9780394736655
ISBN-10: 0394736656
This 1915 novel, never before published in book form, focuses on the misunderstandings and new understandings that result when three male explorers stumble onto an all-female society in the distant reaches of the earth.
Travels with my aunt - Graham Greene
Publisher: Penguin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/15/2004
ISBN-13: 9780143039006
ISBN-10: 0143039008
Henry Pulling, a retired manager, volunteers to accompany his aunt on a trip to Istanbul and soon becomes involved with an ill-assorted group of travelers on the Orient Express.
My name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
Publisher: Anchor Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9781400031047
ISBN-10: 1400031044
The National Jewish Book Award-winning novel records the anguish, dreams, and triumphs of Asher Lev, a talented young painter raised in a cloistered Hasidic community in Brooklyn, as he struggles to resolve his gift of art with his religious background only to emerge into the great world of art, rejecting all else. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
The human stain - Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage International
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780375726347
ISBN-10: 0375726349
A college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist.
Crossing to safety - Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Modern Library
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780375759314
ISBN-10: 037575931X
Two young couples, Sid and Charity and Larry and Sally, from different backgrounds--East and West, rich and poor--befriend each other in 1937 Madison, Wisconsin, in an evocative and insightful portrait of family and friendship. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Red and black : a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism - 1783-1842 Stendhal and Robert Martin Adams
Publisher: Norton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1969
ISBN-13: 9780393098211
ISBN-10: 0393098214
A rakish young man with great ambitions and a remarkable ability to take advantage of profitable situations is the hero of this novel set in nineteenth-century France.
The ginger tree - Oswald Wynd
Publisher: Perennial
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780060959678
ISBN-10: 0060959673
In 1903 China, a restless young Scotswoman enters into an adulterous affair with a Japanese nobleman, beginning an odyssey of scandal that spans two world wars. Reprint.
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