The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Synopsis:
‘Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada’s vague and blameless life - spent cooking, [...]

The Vampire’s Kiss by Raven Hart

The Savannah Vampires series continues as William goes to Europe to rescue a kidnapped voodoo princess. Hearing William is AWOL, a band of mangy, meth-cooking werewolves challenge Jack for dominance of Savannah’s unhuman underworld.
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This is book three in The Savannah Vampires series, and it certainly doesn’t fail to deliver!
This book sees William and [...]

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Date of Publication: Published in three volumes, 1954-1955Number of Pages: 1178 (in one-volume edition, including appendices and index)
Synopsis: Four hobbit friends leave their beloved Shire on a quest to destroy the Ring of Power, bequeathed to Frodo Baggins by the famous Bilbo. They are helped along the way by the wizard Gandalf, a mysterious stranger [...]

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

Synopsis: Hardy described “Desperate Remedies” as a tale of ‘mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity’. Cytherea has taken a position as lady’s maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe’s fascinating, manipulative steward [...]

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

Synopsis: The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo’s main boulevards. From the pious son of the building’s doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, [...]

The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe

Synopsis: ‘What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.’ Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just [...]

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson

Date of Publication: 1859
Number of Pages: 131
Synopsis:
This is the story of Frado, a mulatto girl who grows up in antebellum New England. Her mother, a poor white woman, abandons her after the death of her father, a black man, at the home of a rich, white family, the Bellmonts. Frado’s life with the Bellmonts is [...]

The official Patients sourcebook on Narcolepsy - a Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age.

The official Patients sourcebook on Narcolepsy - a Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age.
James N.Parker, MD
and Phil;ip.M.Parker, PH.D., Editors.
A reference manual for self-directed Patient Research.
Recently I decided I needed some help with my research on narcolepsy. The internet is great, but I sometimes feel I am going around in circles, either reading pages [...]

Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern

Date of Publication: 1855
Number of Pages: 272
Synopsis: “In 1852, Fanny Fern became the first woman regular newspaper columnist in the United States; by 1855 she was the most highly paid newspaper writer in the country, male or female. While she was capable of producing the tear-jerking prose popular in her time, she was most famous [...]