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The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: tremendous, appealing, significantly gifted, and profitable, yet slowly going lower than -- possibly for the final time. Sylvia Plath masterfully attracts the reader into Esther's breakdown with such depth that Esther's madness turns into thoroughly actual or even rational, as possible and available an event as going to the flicks.

Dead Even

“Heart-stopping depth. ”—San Francisco Chronicle “Meltzer has get a hold of a gem of a plot…. It breezes alongside in excessive gear…. [A] hugely advised suspenser. ”—Chicago Tribune Dead Even, the second one electrifying mystery from number 1 long island instances bestselling writer Brad Meltzer (The 10th Justice) poses the blood-chilling query: How a long way may you visit keep your loved one?

Our Ancestors

Viscount Medardo is bisected through a Turkish cannonball at the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, on the age of twelve, retires to the bushes for the remainder of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty go well with of armour. those 3 brilliant photos are the issues of departure for Calvino's vintage triptych of ethical stories, now released in a single quantity and all showing the exuberant expertise of a grasp storyteller.

The Cowards

Ladies, jazz, politics, the golden desires and black comedy of youth--these are the compelling constituents of The Cowards.

May 1945, a small city in Czechoslovakia. The Germans are taking flight. The crimson military is advancing. And Danny Smiricky is being compelled to develop up speedy. staring at with contempt the antics of the town's voters taking part in it secure, he adopts the function first of reluctant conscript, then of speeding partisan.

The Cowards is the tale of an simple, proficient adolescence stuck up in momentous ancient occasions who refuses to be fed up via politics--or to lie down and die with out a struggle.