The Girl at the Lion D'Or
by Sebastian Faulks
From the author of the international bestsellers Birdsong and Charlotte Gray comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original edition marks its first appearance in the United States.
On a rainy night in the 1930s, Anne Louvet appears at the run-down Hôtel du Lion d'Or in the village of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and a new life, one far removed from the awful injustices of her past. As Anne embarks on a torrential love affair with a married veteran of the Great War, The Girl at the Lion d'Or fashions an unbreakable spell of narrative and atmosphere.
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction
edited by Peter Kravitz
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction honors Scotland's explosive and innovative national literature with 47 of its finest representatives.
In addition to excerpts from writers such as Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, Marabou Stork Nightmares) and James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late), this vibrant collection includes voices new to the international scene. Provocative, engrossing, and timely, The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction celebrates nothing less than a literary revolution, in which the language and lifestyles of a generation of artists are making themselves known.
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
edited by McKay Jenkins
Perhaps no writer has better articulated our relationship to the environment than Peter Matthiessen. From Wildlife in America to The Cloud Forest, his work has captured the wonder of the natural world--and horrors of resource exploitation, with its violent effects on traditional peoples and the poor. In The Peter Matthiessen Reader, editor McKay Jenkins presents in a single-volume the nonfiction--essays and excerpts from books--that best exemplifies the spiritual, literary, and political daring so crucial to Matthiessen's vision.
The American Way of Death Revisited
by Jessica Mitford
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963 this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade."
Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study to confront new trends in the industry. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and satiric vision, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb.
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A Demon in My View
by Ruth Rendell
In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble--quite literally--upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds both obsessed with the pathological personality.
A Judgement in Stone
by Ruth Rendell
On Valentine's day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell's finest psychological thrillers.
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The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction by edited by Peter Kravitz
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel by John Donne
Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford
Let Nothing You Dismay by Mark O'Donnell