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“Wedding in October is a rich and gorgeous novel, deeply rooted in memory, delicately constructed, filled with subtle and compelling characters. While grappling with universal themes and events, Geoffrey Clark creates a world that is unmistakably Midwestern: fertile and expansive, plain-spoken...

Meeting the in-laws was the least of her problems... There's nothing like being the guest of honor at an engagement party to remind a person she has commitment issues, but Rachel Benjamin has finally put her neuroses behind her. A weekend with her fiance, Peter, and his parents will put her...

Three friends. One dead body. The summer they’ll never forget Sharing a beach house on Fire Island seems like a killer way for best friends Zoe, Sage and Nick to spend summer together. But just as they’re dreaming of sunset margaritas and late-night barbecues, the body of their house hostess...

When their parents fail to return home one evening, in a familiar yet eerily off-kilter Manhattan, twelve year old Sophie Penn and her brothers William and Tom are left to navigate on their own in a city where technology has become unreliable, discombobulated bands of people roam the streets, fires erupt...

With only 207 more shopping days until thirty, Darcie Elizabeth Baxter is searching for…an office with a door on it, a great apartment in Manhattan and a man who’s interested in commitment. Instead, she’s been spending her days battling her co-workers at Wunderthings Lingerie International...

Zwei ehemalige Pariser Büroangestellte, durch eine Erbschaft finanziell unabhängig geworden, ziehen aufs Land, entdecken dort ihren Intellekt und widmen sich nun den großen Themen ihrer Zeit sowie den Wissenschaften. Und das in rascher Folge. Egal, wie komplex ein Zusammenhang auch sein mag, Bouvard...

1836 verliebte sich Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) in eine ältere Frau, die den jungen Mann lange als große, platonische Liebe beschäftigte und sein Schreiben inspirierte. In der 1842 veröffentlichten Erzählung „November“, einem seiner frühesten Werke, klingen einige der damit verbundenen...

Necessary Deaths is the collection of short stories by Geoffrey Clark. Adroitly told, Geoffrey Clark's collection of stories Necessary Deaths will appeal to anyone who has faced difficult choices regarding the care of animals. Mr. Clark's characters struggle to learn how to let go and confront...

There should be a four-letter word for beauty. She has more shoes than Sarah Jessica Parker and a skin-care system that could make Madonna swoon, but unlike her celebrity counterparts, Grace Noonan doesn’t have it all. Her latest utterly-eligible-yet-maddeningly-unavailable boyfriend has...

A History of Too Much begins with poems that address an Athens undergoing the first ravages of political and financial crisis; the inhabitants of these poems voice extravagant losses and the unpredictable, are often torn between a desire “to flee, but flee where?” The gods and goddesses will still...

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan....

She’s heard all the lines. Now it’s time for the truth! Charlie has to keep pinching herself to believe she’s leaving Australia for a trip to Europe-a generous gift from her family, who know how tough her life has been lately. But the last person Charlie expects to bump into on the plane...

Miranda Lyme, mezzo-soprano, is in love with the infamous-and, okay, technically married-conductor-composer Kurt Hancock. So what if he lives in London, and she...doesn't. Their secret rendezvous are more than enough-for now. Besides, Miranda's life is full and frenetic: four part-time jobs, plus...

Love. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Redemption. And Fabric Softener. Lucy Madison’s life is spinning out of control. After her grandfather crashes his motorcycle for the last time, this frustrated artist is left picking up the pieces (not to mention holding the ashes). But fulfilling his dying wish...