Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

Author	Federico García Lorca
ISBN	0713683260

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play, following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a...

Author	Mary Rickert
ISBN	1618731106

Open this book to any page and find yourself enspelled by these lush, alchemical stories. Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert’s protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers,...

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	1594561699

Since there are a few dozen reviews already posted here, in the spirit of freshness I will compare Poe’s tale with a few other tales, each of these other tales picking up on a Berenice theme.

OBSESSION
In The Gaze by Jean Richepin, the narrator peers through the window of a...

Author	Juan Valera
ISBN	9871136145

La obra de Juan Valera en general y Pepita Jiménez , en particular, ha sido considerada por la crítica como una anomalía dentro de las etapas que marcan el desarrollo de la historia de la literatura española, ni romántica, ni realista, la ya clásica novela del escritor cordobés asoma como una...

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P.R. Reid

The Colditz Story gets Five Stars to honor the men who would not be caged and fought to escape the toughest Stalag in Nazi Germany. This book is just as exciting to read as it likely was back in the early ‘50s when it was first published. Nail-biting successful and unsuccessful escape attempts from start...

Author	Gwendolyn Kiste
ISBN	1947654446

Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.

It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile...