When his ship crashes on an unknown planet, a young man from Earth finds himself stranded in a polluted world whose inhabitants are controlled by powerful doses of radiation.
Lettres Du Vétéran de l'École de Bretonneau À M. Le Professeur Bouillaud (Litterature)
by Miquel-J
Abandoned at the age of eleven by her beautiful, capricious mother, Theodora Cairns, twenty years on and with a painful divorce behind her, is still struggling to get over her childhood abandonment. With the urging of her new love interest, Fergus Costello, and a chance discovery, Theo becomes determined to find her mother and demand answers to the questions she should have asked years ago. Her search for answers leads her to Vermont, USA--but will she be able to handle the disturbing truth?
In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
by Denys Johnson-Davies
You Know When the Men Are Gone (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point))
by Siobhan Fallon
A collection of interconnected stories relate the experiences of Fort Hood military wives who share a poignant vigil during which they raise children while waiting for their husbands to return.
The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Preventions Act, 1883
by Henry Charles Richards
'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book ReviewSome get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one ludicrous farce after another. Here, on scraps of paper p...
Two Old Comedies
by Susanna Centlivre, Mrs (Hannah) Cowley, and Augustin Daly
Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities
by Coral Ann Howells
Oliver's Surprise: A Boy, a Schooner, and the Great Hurricane of 1938
by Carol Newman Cronin