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Brooklyn

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:25:27 +0000

Set in the early 1950s, this quietly powerful novel follows Eilis Lacey, a young woman who leaves her small Irish town for a new life in Brooklyn. Far from home and adrift in a strange country, she struggles with homesickness, ambition, and the possibilities of love. As Eilis begins to build a future in America, unexpected events draw her back to Ireland, where she must confront questions of loyalty, identity, and where she truly belongs. Written by an acclaimed Irish novelist known for his precise, restrained prose, this is a deeply felt exploration of emigration, longing, and the choices that shape a life. Elegantly understated yet emotionally resonant, it will appeal to readers who appreciate character-driven fiction and stories of self-discovery.

The Rules of Magic

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:01:58 +0000

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman is a captivating prequel to Practical Magic, set in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It follows the Owens siblings—Franny, Jet, and Vincent—as they discover their witchcraft heritage despite their mother Susanna’s strict rules to suppress it, like avoiding moonlight strolls, candles, or falling in love due to a family curse that dooms any man they love. A summer visit to their Aunt Isabelle in Massachusetts awakens their magical abilities amid blooming gardens and family secrets tied to the Salem witch trials, blending coming-of-age struggles with romance, tragedy, and the pull of forbidden love.

Tender is the Night

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:11:56 +0000

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a 1934 novel set mainly on the French Riviera during the 1920s. It follows the glamorous but troubled marriage of Dr. Dick Diver and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American heiress struggling with mental illness caused by past trauma. The story explores themes of love, ambition, mental health, and moral decline amid the Jazz Age’s excess. Dick’s promising career and personal life unravel due to alcoholism and dissatisfaction, especially after the arrival of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, who disrupts their social circle. Ultimately, the novel depicts the disintegration of their marriage and Dick’s fall from grace while Nicole gains strength and begins a new life. The narrative includes flashbacks to Dick and Nicole’s meeting in a Swiss psychiatric clinic and highlights emotional complexity amid social glamour.

Not Dead & Not for Sale

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:04:55 +0000

The instant New York Times bestseller: the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver delivers an exhilarating memoir of scaling the pinnacle of rock stardom, plunging into the chasm of addiction and incarceration, and then clawing his way back to the top again and again. In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots—not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam—was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such megabands as Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses on MTV and the Billboard charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic front man in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Robert Plant. Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star excess, with his well-publicized drug busts and trips to rehab. Weiland has since made a series of stunning comebacks, fronting the supergroup Velvet Revolver, releasing solo work, and reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots. He has prevailed as a loving, dedicated father, as well as a business-savvy artist whose well of creativity is far from empty. Not Dead & Not for Sale is a hard rock memoir to be reckoned with—a passionate, insightful, and at times humorous book that reads with extraordinary narrative force.

Tis: A Memoir

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:57:21 +0000

Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have ‘Tis, the story of Frank’s American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this classless country, and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank’s incomparable voice — his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue — that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should stick to their own kind once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach — and to write — that Frank finds his place in the world. The boy in Angela’s Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela’s Ashes, It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done…and McCourt proves himself one of the very best. Frank McCourt’s ‘Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

Blockade Billy

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:39:01 +0000

Even the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William Blockade Billy Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first–and only–player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game’s history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse… and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.

American Subversive: A Novel

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:34:42 +0000

With dedication of the author. As the twenty-first century enters its second decade, foreign wars, the lingering recession and a caustic political environment are taking their toll on Americans. But the party hasn’t ended for Aidan Cole and his friends, a band of savvy — if cynical — New York journalists and bloggers who thrive at the intersection of media and celebrity. At wine-sodden dinner parties or in dimly lit downtown bars, their frenetic talk — of scoops and page views, sexual adventures and trendy restaurants — continues unabated. Then, without warning, the specter of terrorism reenters their lives. A bomb rips through the deserted floor of a midtown office tower. Middle Eastern terrorists are immediately suspected. But four days later, with no arrests and a city on edge, an anonymous email arrives in Aidan’s in-box. Attached is the photograph of an attractive young white woman, along with a chilling message: This is Paige Roderick. She’s the one responsible. So begins an extraordinary journey into the dark soul of modern America — from a back-to-the-land community in the Smoky Mountains to a Weather Underground-like bomb factory in Vermont; from Fishers Island, isolated getaway of the wealthy elite, to the hip lofts of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. American Subversive is David Goodwillie’s sharp and penetrating take on the paranoia of our times — and its real, untold dangers. In examining the connection between our collective apathy and the roots of insurrection, Goodwillie has crafted an intoxicating story of two young Americans grasping for a foothold in a culture — and a country — that’s crumbling around them. Hailed as a clever, compelling, page-turner in the Washington Post, Goodwillie’s memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time was a breakout first book (Elle) and a searing sketch of a decade in decline (Louisville Courier-Journal). Now, with his debut novel, David Goodwillie announces himself as a major new voice in American fiction. Expertly written, relentlessly suspenseful, and bitingly funny, American Subversive is both an unnervingly realistic tale of domestic terrorism and a perfectly observed portrait of Manhattan in the digital age.

A Most Wanted Man

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:23:17 +0000

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, Soon her client’s survival becomes more important to her than her own career – or safety. In pursuit of Issa’s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the War on Terror, the rival spies of Germany. England and America converge upon the innocents.

The Great Gatsby

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:50:30 +0000

Its What He Would Have Wanted : A Novel About Secrets, Sex and Bad Weather

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:49:13 +0000

Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers It’s What He Would’ve Wanted, a brutally funny, highly charged, and moving novel about a directionless thirty-year-old man’s belated transition into adulthood. Our narrator and protagonist is Shea Hickson, a commitment-phobic just-turned-thirty-year-old with somewhat adolescent leanings. Shea lives off lottery winnings and spends his time blindly serving a secret organization whose stated duty is to seek truth, which, though Shea doesn’t quite realize it, turns out to be a small-time terrorist gig. Shea’s parents appear to be a quintessentially comfortable, suburban middle-class couple, and when sons Shea and Orwell (named after Che Guevara and George, their father having been something of a nostalgic radical) arrive for Christmas Eve, all seems as it should be. But when Shea turns a corner to find his father, a BBC weatherman, hanging from the light fixture, the son’s disaffected existence is turned upside down. Worse, Shea’s discovery of an encoded journal his father had been keeping uncovers shocking revelations about his father’s disappointed life as a parent, husband, and disillusioned minor celebrity. Jolted from his emotional ennui, Shea determines to figure out what drove his father to his death and, in the process of unraveling the Hickson family’s increasingly distasteful secrets, comes to better understand himself. With wry humor and savage undercurrents, the story winds through the seamier side of London life — skirting the worlds of television, newspapers, and small-scale urban terrorism. Buoyed by Hughes’s edgy humor and Seinfeldian observations about modern life, It’s What He Would’ve Wanted dissects and mutilates traditional family values as it maps one son’s attempt to piece together a world fractured by alienation, paranoia, and conflict.