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By Lynn Shepherd

ISBN-10: 1429913215

ISBN-13: 9781429913218

"Nobody, i feel, has ever came upon it attainable to love the heroine of Mansfield Park." --Lionel Trilling

In this creative new twist on Mansfield Park, the famously meek Fanny Price--whom Jane Austen's personal mom known as "insipid"--has been completely reworked; she is now a wealthy heiress who's spoiled, condescending, and customarily hated through the county. Mary Crawford, nonetheless, is now nearly as good as Fanny is undesirable, and suffers nice indignities by the hands of her vindictive neighbor. It's in basic terms after Fanny is murdered at the grounds of Mansfield Park that Mary comes into her personal, teaming-up with a thief-taker from London to resolve the crime.

Featuring actual Austen characters--the similar characters, and a similar episodes, yet each one with a brand new twist--MURDER AT MANSFIELD PARK is a brilliantly unique novel that provides Jane Austen lovers an interesting new heroine and tale to learn many times.

By Jack Hight

ISBN-10: 1848542968

ISBN-13: 9781848542969

The 12 months is 1453.? For greater than 1000 years the powerful partitions of Constantinople have secure the capital of the jap Roman Empire, the furthest outpost of Christianity. yet now never-ending ranks of Turkish warriors conceal the plains earlier than them, their colossal cannons educated at the ramparts.? it's the such a lot fearsome strength the area has ever seen.? No ecu military might help: the final crusaders have been lower to items via the Turks at the plains of Kosovo. Constantinople is by itself. And treachery is within the air. 3 humans will fight to figure out the destiny of an empire: the younger Turkish Sultan, lower back from exile and desirous to turn out his greatness; a obdurate Byzantine princess, sworn to guard her urban; and a mercenary captain with a private rating to settle.? yet of them, it's the hardened soldier Giovanni Longo who will face the worst selection: simply as he prepares to make his ultimate stand, he reveals he has anything to reside for in spite of everything. ? From the intrigues in the Emperor's loved ones to the Sultan's harem and the savage fights at the battlements, Siege is a full-blooded ancient experience novel within the culture of Warrior of Rome, Pilgim or campaign.

By Lee Henderson

On a up to date Sunday afternoon in Vancouver, a tender guy stumbles upon a mystery game invented greater than a century prior to, on the beginning of his urban. hence starts off the fellow online game, Lee Henderson's epic story of affection, requited and never, that crosses the modern and historic in an extravagant, anarchistic retelling of the early days of a pioneer city at the fringe of the recognized global. In 1886, out of the smouldering ashes of the nice hearth that destroyed a lot of town, Molly Erwagen—former vaudeville performer—arrives from Toronto along with her liked husband, Samuel, to begin a brand new existence. in the meantime, Litz and Pisk, lumberjacks exiled after the fireplace and blamed for having begun it, try to transparent their names. sooner than lengthy, they've teamed up with Molly to invent a brand new activity that may swap the process that fledgling city's background.

By Elizabeth Gilbert

ISBN-10: 0670024856

ISBN-13: 9780670024858

A excellent, sweeping novel of hope, ambition, and the thirst for wisdom, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling writer of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, placing her inimitable voice into a captivating tale of affection, experience and discovery. Spanning a lot of the eighteenth and 19th centuries, the unconventional follows the fortunes of the intense Whittaker kin as led by way of the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a very good fortune within the South American quinine exchange, finally changing into the richest guy in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s fabulous daughter, Alma (who inherits either her father’s funds and his mind), finally turns into a botanist of substantial presents herself. As Alma’s examine takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a guy named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable work of orchids and who attracts her within the complete opposite direction—into the area of the religious, the divine, and the mystical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this not likely couple is a determined have to comprehend the workings of this international and the mechanisms at the back of all life.

Exquisitely researched and advised at a galloping speed, The Signature of All Things soars around the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and past. alongside the way in which, the tale is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the relatively mad. yet such a lot memorable of all, it's the tale of Alma Whittaker, who—born within the Age of Enlightenment, yet dwelling good into the economic Revolution—bears witness to that impressive second in human background whilst all of the outdated assumptions approximately technological know-how, faith, trade, and sophistication have been exploding into risky new principles. Written within the daring, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s clever, deep, and spellbinding story is bound to catch the hearts and minds of readers.

By J. A. Ricketts

ISBN-10: 1771170034

ISBN-13: 9781771170031

The Badger Redemption is the 3rd and ultimate instalment in J. A. Ricketts's masterpiece sequence that makes a speciality of the far-reaching outcomes of a small town's activities. As with a few endings, this publication additionally serves because the starting of whatever new: a legend. invoice Hatcher's confession has trigger a sequence of occasions that has pressured the citizens of Badger, Newfoundland, to reconsider their very own lives, and to query their position during this world...and the subsequent. Constable William Moss is lengthy useless, and his is one of the spirits wandering in unrest as Ralph Drum attempts to reconcile the policeman's homicide with new revelations in Ralph's family. Redemption is to hand for Ralph, Jennie, and hundreds of thousands of others whose lives have been replaced while the rebellion claimed a sufferer. they are going to quickly examine that, in Badger, even lifeless males inform stories. permit the legend begin...

By Jean Echenoz

ISBN-10: 1595589244

ISBN-13: 9781595589248

5 Frenchmen burst off to struggle, of them forsaking a undeniable younger girl who longs for his or her go back. however the major personality in 1914 is the good battle itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi–award–winning French literary magician whose paintings has been in comparison to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has introduced that deathtrap again to lifestyles, best us lightly from a balmy summer season day deep into the insatiable—and nonetheless unthinkable—carnage of trench warfare.
With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony either witty and clear–eyed, the writer bargains us an intimate epic with the ambience of a vintage motion picture: within the landscape of a transparent blue sky, a biplane spirals abruptly into the floor; a tardy piece of shrapnel shears the head off a man's head as though it have been a soft–boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a spring–scented clearing with a lonely shell–shocked soldier jogging innocently to a firing squad able to shoot him for desertion.
But eventually, the grace notes of humanity in 1914 upward thrust above the terrors of warfare during this fantastically crafted story that Echenoz tells with discretion, precision, and love.

By Oscar Hijuelos

ISBN-10: 1455561509

ISBN-13: 9781455561506

A David Baldacci best decide for Fall 2015

A Boston Globe Fall 2015 Pick

An EW.com Blockbuster Novel Pick

One of Newsday's "20 top Books to learn this Fall"

TWAIN & STANLEY input PARADISE, via Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous paintings of fiction encouraged via the real-life, 37-year friendship among towering figures of the overdue 19th century, famed author and slapstick comedian Mark Twain and mythical explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Hijuelos was once serious about the Twain-Stanley connection and at last all started gaining knowledge of and writing a unique that used the scant historic checklist in their courting as a place to begin for a extra specific fictional account. It was once a hard work of affection for Hijuelos, who labored at the venture for greater than ten years, publishing different novels alongside the way in which yet continuously returning to Twain and Stanley; certainly, he was once nonetheless revising the manuscript the day sooner than his surprising passing in 2013.

The ensuing novel is a richly woven tapestry of individuals and occasions that's detailed one of the author's works, either in topic and constitution. Hijuelos ingeniously blends correspondence, memoir, and third-person omniscience to discover the intersection of those Victorian giants in an extended vanished world.

From their early days as newshounds within the American West, to their admiration and aid of every other's writing, their mutual hatred of slavery, their social lifestyles jointly within the mind-blowing literary circles of the interval, or even a mysterious trip to Cuba to go looking for Stanley's adoptive father, TWAIN & STANLEY input PARADISE fantastically channels vivid yet very diversified figures. it's also a research of Twain's complicated bond with Mrs. Stanley, the bohemian portrait artist Dorothy Tennant, who introduces Twain and his spouse to the realm of séances and mediums after the tragic loss of life in their daughter.

A compelling and deeply felt historic fantasia that makes use of the total variety of Hijuelos' presents, TWAIN & STANLEY input PARADISE stands as an unforgettable coda to an excellent writing occupation.

By Ginny Dye

ISBN-10: 1507886225

ISBN-13: 9781507886229

Can they live on the final, lengthy evening of the Civil War?

The energy of the Union military brings the South to its knees in quit, yet no longer till a yr of excessive discomfort and chaos creates a chasm that could be most unlikely for the rustic to bridge.

Carrie struggles to carry directly to wish because the global caves in round her; striking directly to the promise she has been given. She additionally eventually will get to bare the key she has held so close.

Moses is gravely wounded in conflict. Robert's plantation takes a serious loss, yet is kept from burning by means of an not going source.

Aunt Abby faces chance as she will get extra deeply concerned with Women's Rights and spends time in Washington, D.C.

Rose maintains to thrive within the Contraband Camp, and at last has a dream come precise.

By Michael Moorcock

ISBN-10: 0850310040

ISBN-13: 9780850310047

Behold the fellow (1969) is a technology fiction novel by way of Michael Moorcock. It initially seemed as a novella in a 1966 factor of latest Worlds; later, Moorcock produced an increased model which was once first released in 1969 through Allison & Busby.[1]. The name derives from the Gospel of John, bankruptcy 19, Verse five: "Then Jesus got here out, donning the crown of thorns and the pink gown. And Pilate stated to them Behold the Man."

In the radical, Moorcock weaves an existentialist story approximately Karl Glogauer, a guy who travels from the yr 1970 in a time computer to twenty-eight advert, the place he hopes to fulfill the old Jesus of Nazareth.

By Yasushi Inoue

ISBN-10: 1590174259

ISBN-13: 9781590174258

Greater than 1000 years in the past, a unprecedented trove of early Buddhist sutras and different scriptures was once secreted away in caves close to the Silk highway urban of Tun-huang. yet who concealed this awesome treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the nice sleek eastern novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the tale of Chao Hsing-te, a tender chinese language guy whose unintended failure to take the all-important examination that would qualify him as a excessive executive legitimate ends up in an opportunity stumble upon that attracts him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the chinese language Empire. right here he reveals love, distinguishes himself in conflict, and eventually devotes himself to the unusual activity of depositing the scrolls within the caves the place, many centuries later, they are going to be rediscovered. A e-book of magically bright scenes, fierce passions, and mind-blowing adventures, Tun-huang is additionally a profound and stirring meditation at the secret of background and the hidden presence of the previous.