Now available in paperback, Garrison Keillor’s The Book of Guys spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The beloved author of five previous bestsellers, including Lake Wobegon Days delivers a hilarious collection of 22 stories about all kinds of guys..
Category: Literary
Yoruba Girl Dancing
In the tradition of The Whiteness of Bones, the poignant, funny, and utterly winning story of an African girl’s metamorphasis into an upper-class English schoolgirl–with an edge. Bedford, who herself survived leaving Nigeria behind for England, turns her heroine’s passage through the labyrinth of race and culture into a bittersweet but triumphant odyssey..
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle, author of the ‘Barrytown Trilogy’, takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of ten-year-old Padraic Clarke. Witty and poignant–and adored by critics and readers alike–Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the trumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of Paddy as he tries to make sense of his changing world. print..
The Buccaneers
William Trevor : The Collected Stories
The White Hotel
Mr. Vertigo
Martin Eden
Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist..