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1876 (Vintage International)
by Gore VidalThe third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year.------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire.------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past."------With a new Introduction by the author.
1876: Number 3 in series (Narratives of empire)
by Gore VidalWith the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk very loudly ? usually through the mouths of people called Astor ? step Charles Schuyler and his daughter Emma. Charlie is the unacknowledged bastard son of Aaron Burr; Emma is rather beautiful; and both think it is prudent to return from penury in Europe and secure a fortuitous marriage for Emma. But America is no longer a young republic; it's a fledgling international superpower with its attendant seedy administration, dubious election campaigns, snobbery, 'popped corn', 'speaking tubes' and 'perpendicular railways' (lifts). It's a world that will welcome into its social and political bosom these two attractive exotics with the right names. And it's a world whose every political peccadillo, social slip-up and irresistible intrigue is recorded in this, the journal of Charlie Schuyler.
189 Canaries
by Dieter BögeIn a cozy room in northern Germany, a yellow canary sings rolling melodies to the miners and carpenters of the Harz mountains. But today a bird dealer has come, and he will take the canary far, far away from everything he knows. The journey leads onto trains and steamships, across Europe and even the Atlantic. At last the canary arrives in a room in New York where he hears a strangely familiar song…This beautiful, poignant book introduces readers to the little-known history of a beloved songbird. Lushly illustrated in rich colors, 189 Canaries is an unforgettable story about music, migration, and the search for home.
18: A Novel Of Golf And Life
by John BarnesCraig Cantwell is well known as a journeyman millionaire and 'the best professional golfer who has not won a major.' His successful life as a tour pro is shattered when he is suspended from the PGA Tour. Without a place to compete and with a personal life tangled with drama, Craig has to find his way back to a life he knows. His fight is not with the scions of the tour, the public, or the scores of great golfers who would be his opponents. He has to prevail over the toughest of adversaries - himself. "18" beautifully tells the story of Cantwell and those in his life: Rachelle Keys, the mother of Craig's daughter and a heroic FBI Agent. Kelly Keys, the new 'IT' girl of golf. Thomas Kincaid, agent and lawyer to the rich and scandalous. And Seth Reede, the personal development guru with a past more shocking than any fallen hero. Far more involved than just a tale of athletic triumph, "18" is a story of forgiveness, truth, courage, and redemption.
18: Solo se vive una vez
by F. M. EspinosaSeis chicos, una misma ciudad y la casualidad más increíble: todos ellos cumplen la mayoría de edad el mismo día. Para celebrarlo se gesta en las calles de un Londres veraniego y alocado la mayor fiesta de todas. La fiesta de los 18. 18 es una novela iniciática llena de luz. Francesca siente algo por Warren, el cínico novio de su amiga Kali. Oliver tiene problemas graves de autoestima, Hugo está lejos de casa, Emma cree que le gustan las chicas... y esto solo es el principio. En medio de este desenfreno de emociones, de relaciones y desengaños descubrirán que al final lo que prevalece es estar unidos. #18SoloSeViveUnaVez
18mm Blues
by Gerald A. BrowneOff the coast of Burma Two women pearl divers found a handful of unheard of blue pearls, 18 millimeters in diameter. As a reward, they were savage. Grady and Julia search for the truth and pearls.
18mm Blues
by Gerald A. BrowneA gem dealer caught up in a decades-old murder mystery searches for the world&’s most precious and mysterious pearls in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne&’s exotic, riveting thriller When Grady Bowman and his new girlfriend, Julia Elkins, travel from San Francisco to the Far East to get Grady back into the gem business, a jeweler in Bangkok tells them the extraordinary true story of two female Japanese pearl divers who discovered in the Andaman Sea an oyster bed filled with priceless, naturally blue pearls. The divers were murdered for what they found, and now the son of one of the divers wants revenge. As Grady and Julia hunt for the source of the priceless pearls, they are led to the estate and oyster farms of the world&’s wealthiest pearl dealer. Here Julia becomes increasingly obsessed with the divers&’ tragic deaths, and she and Grady will unravel an extraordinary mystery of one man&’s obsession and another man&’s crime, and the world&’s most breathtaking naturally blue pearls.
18th Generation Son-in-law: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Zhong HuaXiaoDangJiaafter being married for two years his son-in-law yao yuan who never even touched his wife's hands was ridiculed by his brother-in-law as a white dog because he was born with white hair and was bullied by his family one night he received a dream from his great-grandfather only then did he realize that his miserable life was caused by his great-grandfather's gamble a hundred years ago after his great-grandfather cancelled the gamble he started his own hanging life
18th Generation Son-in-law: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Zhong HuaXiaoDangJiaafter being married for two years his son-in-law yao yuan who never even touched his wife's hands was ridiculed by his brother-in-law as a white dog because he was born with white hair and was bullied by his family one night he received a dream from his great-grandfather only then did he realize that his miserable life was caused by his great-grandfather's gamble a hundred years ago after his great-grandfather cancelled the gamble he started his own hanging life
18th Generation Son-in-law: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Zhong HuaXiaoDangJiaafter being married for two years his son-in-law yao yuan who never even touched his wife's hands was ridiculed by his brother-in-law as a white dog because he was born with white hair and was bullied by his family one night he received a dream from his great-grandfather only then did he realize that his miserable life was caused by his great-grandfather's gamble a hundred years ago after his great-grandfather cancelled the gamble he started his own hanging life
19 Knives
by Mark JarmanWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in 19 Knives. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.
19 Love Songs
by David LevithanThe New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, Someday, and Two Boys Kissing is back with a short story collection about love--perfect for Valentine's Day or year-round reading! <P><P>A resentful member of a high school Quiz Bowl team with an unrequited crush. A Valentine's Day in the life of Every Day's protagonist "A." <P><P>A return to the characters of Two Boys Kissing.19 Love Songs, from New York Times bestselling author David Levithan, delivers all of these stories and more. <P><P>Born from Levithan's tradition of writing a story for his friends each Valentine's Day, this collection brings all of them to his readers for the first time. With fiction, nonfiction, and a story in verse, there's something for every reader here. Witty, romantic, and honest, teens (and adults) will come to this collection not only on Valentine's Day, but all year round.
19 Purchase Street
by Gerald A. BrowneIn Gerald A. Browne&’s spellbinding New York Times bestseller, a man bent on vengeance infiltrates a cabal of blue-blooded bankers that have taken over the Mafia In a quiet suburb of New York City, a mansion on a gated estate houses one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the United States—an elite Mafia whose dons belong to the finest families that the WASP establishment has to offer. Millions of dollars flow in and out of 19 Purchase Street, toted by bagmen who gladly risk everything to share in the syndicate&’s profits. Nothing disrupts operations—until a courier gets a dangerous idea. To avenge a loved one&’s death, Drew Gainer joins the money-laundering scheme, plotting a billion-dollar heist with the help of a beautiful, daring woman and pitting himself against a ruthless opponent. From New York to Paris to Zurich, Gainer risks his life to become the winner who takes all. But who is really conning whom?
19 Yellow Moon Road: An Action-Packed Novel of Suspense (Sisterhood #33)
by Fern MichaelsA thrilling new book in the wildly popular series from the author of Hidden, legendary #1 New York Times bestseller Fern Michaels! The Sisterhood is reuniting to investigate The Haven, a suspicious spiritual organization that&’s more dangerous cult than caring commune… Maggie Spritzer&’s nose for a story doesn&’t just make her a top-notch newspaper editor, it also tells her when to go the extra mile for a friend. When she gets a strange message from her journalism pal, Gabby Richardson, Maggie knows her services are needed. Gabby has become involved with The Haven, a commune that promises to guide its members toward a more spiritually fulfilling life. But Gabby&’s enthusiasm has turned to distrust ever since she was refused permission to leave the compound to visit her sick mother. Maggie wants to learn more about The Haven, and the Sisterhood is eager to help. It turns out The Haven&’s founders are the sons of a disgraced Chicago businessman in prison for running a Ponzi scheme. They also have connections to a Miami billionaire with dubious sidelines. Soon, the Sisterhood gang embark on a search—and uncover a web of crime that runs deeper and higher than they ever imagined. And they&’ll need all their special skills to bring it down… Praise for Fern Michaels&“Michaels&’s highly developed skills as a storyteller are evident in the affable characters [and] suspenseful plot.&” —Publishers Weekly on Deep Harbor
19 cámaras
by Cristina Fernández Blanco Jon ArretxeDiecinueve cámaras controlan el devenir de los habitantes del bilbaíno barrio de San Francisco, escenario donde transcurre la acción de esta novela. Calles que fueron ocupadas en su día por mineros y estibadores, que asistieron a la aparición del ideario republicano y que fueron un espacio de libertad y de diversión para varias generaciones. El cierre de muchos de los locales, la aparición de la heroína y la llegada masiva de la emigración trastocaron la atmósfera que se respiraba. Y en este paisaje nos encontramos a Touré, un africano en situación irregular que ofrece sus servicios como vidente. Empujado por su instinto de supervivencia, se convertirá en improvisado detective y el destino le llevará a relacionarse con lo más mísero y, sorprendentemente, con lo más selecto de la sociedad bilbaína, dando pie a una secuencia de peripecias hilarantes en contraste con una dura realidad.
19 de julio: El día de la furia
by José C. BlandinoEl día de la furia. <p><p>En el Madrid previo al levantamiento militar, un joven opositor sevillano procura sobrevivir a los albures de la gran ciudad. <p>Sin embargo, no puede evitar ser devorado por los formidables acontecimientos de una época convulsa y peligrosa de la que acaba convirtiéndose en involuntario protagonista.
19 kamera
by Cristina Fernández Blanco Jon ArretxeTrama paralelo batzuek osatzen dute umorea eta gordintasuna konbinatzen dituen nobela beltz hau: Palankako klub bateko prezio susmagarriak, trafikatzaileen arteko istiluak, adin txikiko prostituta baten desagerpena, kaputxadun talde baten jipoi eta hilketak... Dena dela, nobelako ardatz nagusia Toure da, Bilboko San Frantzisko auzoan bizi den etorkin afrikarra. Ogibidea bilatzen behartuta, gezurrezko igarle gisa saiatuko da lehenik eta, pixkanaka, kasu eta proposamen bitxiak sortzen joango zaizkio.
1901: A Thrilling Novel of a War that Never Was
by Robert ConroyThe year is 1901. Germany's navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. President McKinley indignantly refuses, so with the honor and economic future of the Reich at stake, the Kaiser launches an invasion of the United States, striking first on Long Island. Now the Americans, with their army largely disbanded, must defend the homeland. When McKinley suffers a fatal heart attack, the new commander in chief, Theodore Roosevelt, rallies to the cause, along with Confederate general James Longstreet. From the burning of Manhattan to the climactic Battle of Danbury, American forces face Europe's most potent war machine in a blazing contest of will against strength.
1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance
by Thomas HarrisonThe year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attention to the life and work of Carlo Michelstaedter, he deftly portrays the reciprocal implications of different discourses—philosophy, literature, sociology, music, and painting. His beautifully balanced and deeply informed study provides a new, wider, and more ambitious definition of expressionism and shows the significance of this movement in shaping the artistic and intellectual mood of the age.1910 probes the recurrent themes and obsessions in the work of intellectuals as diverse as Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Vasily Kandinsky, Georg Lukàcs, Georg Simmel, Dino Campana, and Arnold Schoenberg. Together with Michelstaedter, who committed suicide in 1910 at the age of 23, these thinkers shared the essential concerns of expressionism: a sense of irresolvable conflict in human existence, the philosophical status of death, and a quest for the nature of human subjectivity. Expressionism, Harrison argues provocatively, was a last, desperate attempt by the intelligentsia to defend some of the most venerable assumptions of European culture. This ideological desperation, he claims, was more than a spiritual prelude to World War I: it was an unheeded, prophetic critique.
1914
by Linda Coverdale Jean EchenozFive Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award-winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable-and still unthinkable-carnage of trench warfare.With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear-eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosphere of a classic movie: in the panorama of a clear blue sky, a biplane spirals suddenly into the ground; a tardy piece of shrapnel shears the top off a man's head as if it were a soft-boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a spring-scented clearing with a lonely shell-shocked soldier strolling innocently to a firing squad ready to shoot him for desertion.But ultimately, the grace notes of humanity in 1914 rise above the terrors of war in this beautifully crafted tale that Echenoz tells with discretion, precision, and love.
1916
by Morgan LlywelynHistorical novel of the struggle for Irish independence, seen through the eyes of a young Irish partisan.
1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
by Morgan LlywelynAt age fifteen, Ned Halloran lost both of his parents--and almost his own life--when the Titanic sank. Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland of Ireland and enrolls at Saint Edna's school in Dublin. Saint Edna's headmaster is the renowned scholar and poet, Patrick Pearse--who is soon to gain greater fame as a rebel and patriot. Ned becomes deeply involved with the growing revolution . . . and the sacrifices it will demand.Through Ned's eyes, Morgan Llywelyn's 1916 examines the Irish fight for freedom--inspired by poets and schoolteachers, fueled by a desperate desire for independence, and played out in the historic streets of Dublin against the background of World War I. It is a story of the brave men and heroic women who, for a few unforgettable days, managed to hold out against the might of the British Empire.
1917. Traición y revolución
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiUna historia del amor separado por las ideologías y la única revolución que nunca ha triunfado. Europa se desangra en la Primera Guerra Mundial, millones de cadáveres rusos y alemanes yacen en el frente oriental, mientras los poderosos se reparten el mundo. Desde Londres hasta Constantinopla, y de San Petersburgo a Berlín, los ejércitos, espías, revolucionarios y agentes secretos destruyen los antiguos imperios y forjan los cimientos de un nuevo mundo. En medio de la guerra de Europa y de la revolución soviética, el misterioso agente norteamericano John Mann investiga la trama de toda una conspiración que involucra la muerte del misterioso Rasputín, la caída del Zar, las maquinaciones de Stalin y las estrategias de Trotsky, el reparto de Medio Oriente, a los árabes y turcos, a los bolcheviques y alemanes, y al arma más poderosa del Kaiser en su guerra contra el Imperio Ruso: Vladimir Lenin. La historia quecomienza en 1917 termina el 9 de noviembre de 1989 con la caída del Muro de Berlín. Anastasia y Konstantin, dos sobrevivientes de la revolución soviética, separados por el muro, narran su versión de los hechos mientras buscan reencontrarse. Una historia del amor separado por las ideologías, de los eternos sueños frustrados de la humanidad, y de la única revolución que nunca ha triunfado.
1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution
by Various Boris Dralyuk1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution is a collection of literary responses to one of the most cataclysmic events in modern world history, which exposes the immense conflictedness and doubt, conviction and hope, pessimism and optimism which political events provoked among contemporary writers - sometimes at the same time, even in the same person. This dazzling panorama of thought, language and form includes work by authors who are already well known to the English-speaking world (Bulgakov, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky), as well as others, whose work we have the pleasure of encountering here for the very first time in English. Edited by Boris Dralyuk, the acclaimed translator of Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (also published by Pushkin Press), 1917 includes works by some of the best Russian writers - some already famous in the English-speaking world, some published here for the very first time. It is an anthology for everyone: those who are coming to Russian literature for the first time, those who are already experienced students of it, and those who simply want to know how it felt to live through this extreme period in history.POETRY: * Marina Tsvetaeva, 'You stepped from a stately cathedral ', 'Night. - Northeaster. - Roar of soldiers. - Roar of waves.' * Zinaida Gippius, 'Now', 'What have we done to it?', '14 December 1917' * Osip Mandelstam, 'In public and behind closed doors' * Osip Mandelstam, 'Let's praise, O brothers, liberty's dim light' * Anna Akhmatova, 'When the nation, suicidal' * Boris Pasternak, 'Spring Rain' * Mikhail Kuzmin, 'Russian Revolution' * Sergey Esenin, 'Wake me tomorrow at break of day' * Mikhail Gerasimov, 'I forged my iron flowers' * Vladimir Kirillov, 'We' * Aleksey Kraysky, 'Decrees' * Andrey Bely, 'Russia' * Alexander Blok, 'The Twelve' * Titsian Tabidze, 'Petersburg' * Pavlo Tychyna, 'Golden Humming' * Vladimir Mayakovsky, 'Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle', 'To Russia', 'Our March' PROSE: * Alexander Kuprin, 'Sashka and Yashka' * Valentin Kataev, 'The Drum' * Aleksandr Serafimovich, 'How He Died' * Dovid Bergelson, 'Pictures of the Revolution' * Teffi, 'A Few Words About Lenin', 'The Guillotine' * Vasily Rozanov, from 'Apocalypse of Our Time' * Aleksey Remizov, 'The Lay of the Ruin of Rus'' * Yefim Zozulya, 'The Dictator: A Story of Ak and Humanity' * Yevgeny Zamyatin, 'The Dragon' * Aleksandr Grin, 'Uprising' * Mikhail Prishvin, 'Blue Banner' * Mikhail Zoshchenko, 'A Wonderful Audacity' * Mikhail Bulgakov, 'Future Prospects'From the Trade Paperback edition.
1919
by Eve L. EwingThe Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the "Red Summer" of violence across the nation's cities, is an event that has shaped the last century but is widely unknown. <p><p>In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history and illuminate the thin line between the past and the present. <p><p>Eve L. Ewing is a writer and an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She is the author of Electric Arches and Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side.