Posts Tagged Novel

Case Histories: A Novel

Posted by admin on Friday, 16 July, 2010

Product Description
Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.

Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac’s apparently random attack.

Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making – with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband – until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.

Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, s… More >>

Case Histories: A Novel


Family History: A Novel

Posted by admin on Monday, 14 June, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781400032112
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
From the prodigiously gifted author of the acclaimed memoir Slow Motion, a stunning and brutally honest novel about one family’s harrowing recovery from devastation.

Rachel Jensen is perfectly happy: in love with her husband, devoted to their daughter Kate, gratified by her work restoring art. And finally, she’s pregnant again. But as Rachel discovers, perfection can unravel in an instant. The summer she is thirteen, Kate returns from camp sullen,… More >>

Family History: A Novel


A Short History of Women: A Novel

Posted by admin on Saturday, 5 June, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781416594987
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
  • Notes:

Product Description
National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first.The novel opens in England in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause. Her choice echoes in the stories of her descendants interwoven through… More >>

A Short History of Women: A Novel


The History of Love: A Novel

Posted by admin on Saturday, 5 June, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780393328622
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
The illuminating national bestseller: “Vertiginously exciting…vibrantly imagined….[Krauss is] a prodigious talent.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother’s loneliness.

Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But life wasn’t … More >>

The History of Love: A Novel