The Maples Stories

Author	Saul Bellow
ISBN	0140189424

There is a thriving trade in self-help books which have always baffled me. I could never relate to another person telling me Look, these are the steps you need to take to better your life & if you don't take them you are done for ! Well, no book will be so absolute in saying so but underlying all the sugarcoating...

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Cathleen Schine

"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always...

Author	Poppy Z. Brite
ISBN	0440217989

"Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."--Harlan Ellison

In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can't hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum...

Author	Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN	0451166639

Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives; Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication,...

Author

Bill Pierce

Finally, runners at all levels can improve their race times while training less, with the revolutionary Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training (FIRST) program.

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal and featured twice in six months in cover stories in Runner's World magazine, FIRST's...

Author	Nadia Terranova
ISBN	8806237454

Ida è appena sbarcata a Messina, la sua città natale: la madre l'ha richiamata in vista della ristrutturazione dell'appartamento di famiglia, che vuole mettere in vendita. Circondata di nuovo dagli oggetti di sempre, di fronte ai quali deve scegliere cosa tenere e cosa buttare, è costretta a fare...

Author	Marco Balzano
ISBN	8806237411

Quando arriva la guerra o l'inondazione, la gente scappa. La gente, non Trina. Caparbia come il paese di confine in cui è cresciuta, sa opporsi ai fascisti che le impediscono di fare la maestra. Non ha paura di fuggire sulle montagne col marito disertore. E quando le acque della diga stanno per sommergere...