Even with the country at war, the show must go on... After the tragic death of her father, aspiring singer Jessie Delaney has been forced to live with her bullying aunt and dreams of getting the break of a lifetime to escape. When she's cast as one of the Variety Girls in a new show at the Empire Theatre, Jessie hopes this is the new beginning she's been longing for. But following her dreams on stage will mean being separated from sweetheart Harry.As she starts her new job, it's not long before...
Stephen Fry's first novel involves the fabrication of a lost pornographic novel by Charles Dickens and a number of other indecent inventions. The tale begins when a public schoolboy inadvertently observes the murder of a Hungarian violinist.
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Heritage of Literature S.) (Panther Books)
by Alan Sillitoe and Keith Waterhouse
'... includes the poem "The rats"' - book cover.
Sid's Place - Tom Calder's Life Underground in the Psychedelic Sixties of California.
by Richard del Connor and The Hippy Coyote
Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
by Carol Roh Spaulding
This collection of linked stories follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act and extending to near the end of the century. Linked stories, or stories that form a story cycle, are a common book-length form seen in Asian American literature that accommodates multiple perspectives across generations and locations. Through this story cycle, patterns emerge as cultural identity and individuality, often in tension with one anoth...
Did You Hear About the Prinz Party (Faerie Lit, #1)
by Eirian Naomi Omid
