106 results for 'novel calm'

Galen has lived every day trying to live up to non-existant standards. He is rarely successful and retreats into his quiet life. But when things come to a head, Galen escapes to South Korea. He lands...

This hilarious, original, tour de force takes NYT best-selling author Gloria Nagy's scalding, clear-eyed view of life in the absolute present and pulls out all narrative stops. Fast, furious, and...

With love, betrayal and grief disrupting her perfectly peaceful life, will she fight for the happiness she deserves?After the violent death of her husband, Rebecca Holmes is content leading a quiet...

Scones, tea, and a stabbing…When Tabitha Darling entered Cafe La Femme in a reality TV show hosted by an infamous “bad boy” Chef, she never expected to be a suspect in his murder...

Fast-paced science fiction, humor and a journey into the world of rock and roll.Mark Gutstein was a typical young man of 1996. Calm, relatively anonymous, one more number in the files of the...

This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre's engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its...

Written during the Covid-19 pandemic, Austin's poems chronicle, in lyrical language, an upended world. Through metaphor and introspection, this image-rich collection captures the silent scream,...

"It is a strangely attractive absurdity, which excites a sort of sugary fascination over the reader." - Michael Sadleir"An elegantly composed anthology of Germanic terror and gloomy topographical...

This Novel follows on from the previous adventures of Calmos Harr and Tom Titterington. This time, they experience, an epic battle, a lost tape and a rather strange version of Jongo.

Title: Montcalm and Wolfe. [With introductory chapters. 1710-1763.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United...

Can't a demon get a break? A new school year, and things had been going good. Seriously.Things had finally calmed down for Eve McAllister to get a little bit of normal--something she had been craving...

The calm girl Krishnajatshi and her younger sister Neerajatshi take refuge with their grandfather by chance. This is the first part of a family novel that tells how they deal with their antagonistic...

The calm girl Krishnajatshi and her younger sister Neerajatshi take refuge with their grandfather by chance. This is the second part of a family novel that tells how they deal with their antagonistic...

Even the most agonizing character in this nonfiction narrative manages to discover their innate, yet forgotten, instinctual ability to stay calm.As Hurricane Charley churns closer and closer to the...

Originally published in 1888, this early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Under the pseudonym Q, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch pens a fascinating novel of immensely...

It is the early 1980s, a time when air travel was uncomplicated, when people still smoked in offices, restaurants and bars. February Heat, set on St. Ursula, a British Caribbean island very near to...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik / Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract:...

Had Casey Miller known the peril in store for her she might have turned down her dream job offer.Things are definitely not as they seem. Her personal judgments are turned upside down as she finds...

Candy Story recounts a turbulent year in the life of Mia, a young woman whose apparent calm is perpetually threatened by inner doubts and outer catastrophe. Her modest dreams of happiness are dashed...

AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY about the unravelling of relationships and the tightening grip of alcoholism, in lieu of a Stage IV, Metastatic Breast Cancer Diagnosis.There is a rawness, which makes this...

Get lost in the woods.In the summer of 1972, a young Brazilian-American woman fresh out of art school takes a summer job restoring paintings at a hunting lodge in Germany's Black Forest. Her...

The novel is set at a prison camp where the inmates are allowed to go into town to work and earn money. At the start the camp is calm and collected. Then a man was sent to the camp as a punishment...

A glance at "Shahrazad and the Oppressed Femininity"In this book, the author addressed specific details that other novels did not address before. It talks about recurring events faced by Arab middle...

"As gripping as it is hilarious." -- Vanity Fair"I devoured this novel . . . It just made my whole being vibrate and hum with the impossible, inevitable business of loving other people...

"Burneyville is a typical farming community in West Central Texas, where people for the most part mind their own business..." Church on Sundays, dust devils, the routine of farming and livestock, and...

Thoughts that was put into words will sometimes defined these rhymes as wildness and mind-blowing drama, a sense of calmness and dilemma is always in motion to keep these flames within the mind...

“Humans are easy to control.  Soon we cats may domesticate them.”   Another funny, heart-warming and insightful novel written in both cats’ point of view following...

The White Squall: A Story Of The Sargasso Sea is a novel written by John Conroy Hutcheson and published in 1887. The story is set in the Sargasso Sea, a region in the North Atlantic Ocean known for...

Bear and Forbear: Or The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga is a novel written by Oliver Optic and published in 1874. The story follows the adventures of a young man named Paul Duncan, who inherits a boat...

Caroline Steele decides to leave her calm, respectable life as a wife and mother to get another job at the University of New Mexico. She is hired as the museum shop manager at the University Art...

Ann Kinnear thought the job was just another sensing-for-hire ...... until she realized that the woman in the Philadelphia townhouse was the victim of murder.Will Ann be able to bring the victim's...

Martin has shut himself off from life. Too many people he loved have left him: his wife, his mother, his father, his best friend. Once a fearless adventurer and world traveler, he now works in a...

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) is a novel by James De Mille. Originally serialized in Harper's Weekly, the novel was published posthumously and, at first, anonymously...

An ominous chill settles over twelve-year-old Hank Baker before the news of a jailbreak threatens his safety. Determined to stay calm and keep things normal at home, a couple of strange events wreak...

BARNEY and BONES, about one Irish Wolfhound and one cadaver dog, comprise another Helen A. Bemis doggie double-header, two novels in one book: Irish Wolfhounds are big, among the largest of...