Mature Man and His Sweetheart

Mature Man and His Sweetheart

Author: Bu Xiaojie

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1648849601

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Her boyfriend broke off his legs and kissed her younger sister. In her anger, she accidentally met the president of the diamond company. From then on, she was surrounded by demons.


The Sweetheart is in

The Sweetheart is in

Author: Sandi L. Wisenberg

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780810151246

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The yearnings of a little sister, the hazy memories of a concentration camp liberator, and the romantic entanglements of political activists are portrayed in The Sweetheart Is In, S.L. Wisenberg's first collection of short stories. Each of these edgy, lyrical stories creates its own universe in the space of a few pages even while overlapping characters and themes. The award-winning title story captures the longings, personal and political, of a sensitive girl on the cusp of adolescence as she tries to find her place in the world-and within her self-contained Jewish community in Houston-during the Vietnam era. Wisenberg also reveals a mischievous side when she retells well-known fairy tales in a darkly whimsical fashion. Wisenberg's work is part of today's renaissance in Jewish storytelling. Many of her characters are forced to navigate between doubt and faith but fortunately equipped with humor and wisdom.


The Sweetheart's Naughty Scandal

The Sweetheart's Naughty Scandal

Author: Bella Moxie

Publisher: Grace Street Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Vestry Lane's favorite solicitor has long since learned not to trust members of the ton. Particularly the women. But when sweet and proper Miss Mary Turner arrives unannounced in his office declaring that she needs his help....well, it's difficult to remember that he's sworn off proper young ladies. But then again, this young lady might not be as proper as she seems. In fact, she seems rather intent on getting herself into trouble. And it turns out the one thing this noble man of law can't resist...is rescuing a naughty damsel. This is a spicy regency romance novella. Though part of a series, it can be read as standalone. Please note, this is a super hot, spicy read.


Novelist as a Vocation

Novelist as a Vocation

Author: Haruki Murakami

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2022-11-08

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0451494652

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. "Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers" —New York Times Book Review A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Esquire, Vulture, LitHub, New York Observer Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game, when he suddenly knew he could write a novel; the importance of memory, what he calls a writer’s “mental chest of drawers”; the necessity of loneliness, patience, and his daily running routine; the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career and more. "What I want to say is that in a certain sense, while the novelist is creating a novel, he is simultaneously being created by the novel as well." —Haruki Murakami


Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart

Author: Haruki Murakami

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2001-05-22

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0375413464

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Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.


Stealing Benefacio's Roses

Stealing Benefacio's Roses

Author: Martín Prechtel

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2006-06-07

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1556435878

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Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan myths. The story shifts expertly from timeless, with archetypal characters like Raggedy Boy and the goddess known as the Water-Skirted Beauty, to timely in the book's striking first-person narrative set in the 1980s. Prechtel shows how ancient myths can become a part of life for everyone and help nurture spiritual survival in the modern world. Though it comes third in sequence with the author's other two books, Stealing Benefacio's Roses also stands on its own as a classic work of spiritual seeking and adventure.


The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-04-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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After arguing with his wife Susan at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex, Michael Henchard, drunk on rum auctions her off, along with their baby daughter, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family and vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. Some 18 years later, after Newson is lost at sea, Susan seeks out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. She discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. When the couple is reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship. However, he is engaged with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill and his situation begins to complicate.


The Mayor of Casterbridge (Historical Novel)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Historical Novel)

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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After arguing with his wife Susan at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex, Michael Henchard, drunk on rum auctions her off, along with their baby daughter, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family and vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. Some 18 years later, after Newson is lost at sea, Susan seeks out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. She discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. When the couple is reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship. However, he is engaged with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill and his situation begins to complicate.


Hardy, Thomas: The Complete Novels (Oregan Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

Hardy, Thomas: The Complete Novels (Oregan Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: Oregan Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 7454

ISBN-13:

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Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Desperate Remedies - Under the Greenwood Tree - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Madding Crowd - The Hand of Ethelberta - The Return of the Native - The Trumpet-Major - A Laodicean: a Story of To-day - Two on a Tower - The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Woodlanders - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Life's Little Ironies - Jude the Obscure Includes Bonus two short stories - The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 - The Three Strangers