The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado’s science fiction novella of of how humans cope with alien contact.
After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker’s store, coveting her...
Amazon.com ReviewSet in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under...
Amazon.com Review
Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery....
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, a fiery and independent scholar, is forced to disappear underground, leaving Emma and her parents...
THE KREUTZER SONATA
AND OTHER STORIES
By Count Leo Tolstoi
CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
THE KREUTZER SONATA.
LESSON OF "THE KREUTZER SONATA."
IVAN THE FOOL.
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
"POLIKUSHKA;"
THE...
Author Ina Seidel poetically dramatizes the life of 18th century German explorer George Forster. Destined to grow up a distinguished man of science who, while little more than a boy, accompanied that great seaman, Captain Cook (with what a bold,...