Buried in a Book

Buried in a Book
Author: Lucy Arlington
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425246191

After losing her job as a journalist at the age of forty-five, Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in North Carolina. Being paid to read seems perfect to Lila, although it's difficult with the cast of quirky co-workers and piles of query letters. But when a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agency's waiting room-and Lila discovers a series of threatening letters-she's determined to find out who wrote him off.

Griffin and Sabine

Griffin and Sabine
Author: Nick Bantock
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780877017882

Don't miss The Pharos Gate, the final volume in the Griffin & Sabine story. Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sabine, the book finally shares what happened to the lovers. Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. –Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385353227

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Letter from a Place I've Never Been
Author: Hilda Raz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2021-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1496226828

With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her poems explore the complexities that come with being alive in the world today.

Letters from Egypt

Letters from Egypt
Author: Lucie Lady Duff Gordon
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

The book presents a fascinating insight into life in Egypt in 1860. Lucie Duff Gordon was a remarkable woman suffering from tuberculosis. For a number of years, she has had to move to a warmer climate for her health, so she chooses Egypt. Those times, the relations between Egypt and the British Empire were becoming tense. And the locals were not loyal to the English tourists, making huge demands. Lucie Duff Gordon managed to become a member of the community. She surrounded herself with some wonderful people, who stayed loyal for the rest of her life, and started to learn the language. Although she wasn't particularly wealthy, she was still generous to those who needed her aid. This wonderful account of her travels and an unusual view on Egypt, its life, and culture in the middle of the Victorian era.