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Ethna Carbery (born Anna Johnston, 3 December 1866 21 April 1902) was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best-known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán. Along with Alice Milligan she published two Irish nationalist magazines. In 1900 she was a founding member of Inghinidhe...

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting. One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II,...

Despite her family's threat to disown her, Idil, a young Somali woman, rejects her high Bliss status to marry Sidow, a poor Boon man. Her decision transforms her life, forcing her to face harsh and sometimes even deadly consequences for her defiance of a strict tribal hierarchy. Set in the fifteen-year...

Rome 44 AD, Marcus Salvius Magnus has returned from three years fighting for the emperor Claudius in Britannia. As the leader of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood he must quickly re-establish his command. But he is beset with problems. Who is evicting tenants in his territory? How can he settle...

A poignant, heartbreaking new work by “one of the best novelists alive” (Irving Howe)—the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other’s lives in ways they could never have imagined.   Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine...

“The best of the 3 parts so far all the way through to the unexpected turn and ending. Now I sit here with that soft sadness I get when a good book ends*.” ~ Graureiher* Part Three: Signy's saga continues A new arrival throws her. An ally finds fault with her. An enemy seeks to undermine...

Luke Cevennes, M.D. He liked the way it sounded even after a decade and a half of wearing the mantle. Jeremy Kell, PhD. That rolled over Luke's tongue with more flavor than any name in his world. The sexy Jamaican immigrant literally swept him off his feet nearly two decades before. The two fit...

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail...

"Last night there was a snowstorm that made my window disappear. I woke up thinking you had died. This is my first letter in three and a half years. First letter since I left Pakistan. First letter since Nusrat.†? It is 1992. Violence is exploding in Pakistan. In India, a 16th century mosque...

It was the spring of 1965, and Sarah, the carnival cook, has returned to Prairie Bluff, Wisconsin where she managed The Prairie Bluff Inn and Amphitheater. Her fiancé was a musician and sang in the house band. But when a plane crash took his life and the life they had planned together, she ran from...

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book, we find the world-renowned poet visiting familiar themes in fresh ways.

...plus il pénétrait en son cœur, plus il la trouvait attirante. Il voulait tout savoir sur elle : son passé, ses coutumes... Nous sommes en 1970, à l'île de La Réunion, aux prémices des transformations d'une société qui lutte pour conserver son identité aux facettes multiples. Le...

Survivre dans une société africaine chaotique, rythmée par la violence et les guerres civiles.Mongalé est de retour à Bathi batuko, son pays, après une longue période d'exil. Elle cherche à reprendre le cours de sa vie, interrompu par la guerre. Au détour d'une rue, elle retrouve Prince, le...

New Zealand has some interesting ghost stories. 'A Flax Rope' is a Maori ghost story where the guardian warriors of the iwi (Tribe) are called upon to save their people.The ghost waka (canoe) is a long established tradition and they have been seen by sensible people when something threatens the iwi..