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An eBook short.A classic Lorrie Moore story from her beloved collection Like Life, ';Vissi d'Arte' is funny, bright, a little sad, biting: a brokenhearted love song to art and New York City.Harry is a playwright who lives in Times Square. His bathroom floods; his surgeon girlfriend has left for the Upper West Side; and trucks have...

She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: You're on your own now. Take care. Be good. She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know...

Originally published in 1935, this is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's sprawling novel of Wisconsin's logging days, when fortunesand familieswere made and broken over king lumber.Barney Glasgow, who had fought his way up from chore-boy in the lumber camps of Iron Ridge to lumber king of Wisconsin, is fifty-three and has much reason to...

Second in the Legendary Lymond ChroniclesFor the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a...

1946, post-World War II Hamburg.While thousands wander the rubble, lost and homeless, Colonel Lewis Morgan, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the denazification of its defeated people, is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe. He is awaiting the arrival of his wife, Rachaelstill grieving for their eldest...

FletchHes an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently hes living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHes taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesnt appreciate his style. Or the expense account items hes racking up. Or his definition of the...