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London: Pan Macmillan, 2015. Used. Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places Fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken… Read More

London: Random House, 2011. Used. Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful and talented couple, are desperate to maintain their dreams of greatness and distinction against the inexorable pressure of their suburban life.

London: Penguin Random House, 2008. Used. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. All of the stories also appeared in the posthumously released Richard Yates, The Collected Stories...Contents[edit]"Doctor Jack-o'-lantern""The Best of Everything""Jody Rolled The Bones""No Pain Whatsoever""A Glutton for Punishment""A Wrestler with Sharks""Fun with a Stranger""The B.A.R. Man""A Really Good Jazz Piano""Out with the Old""Builders"

Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited, 1998. Used. Paperback novel edition...Dramatic novel about two friends in Sydney in the 1830s who find themselves on opposite sides of a fierce conflict which test their friendship. Author's other publications include 'A Bitter Harvest' and 'Reprisal'. He has won awards for his work, which includes screen adaptations of 'The Timeless Land' and 'The Far Country'.

London: Pan, 2002. Used. Novel exploring the relationship of Sam Delon, a wealthy expatriate in Japan, and Florence Carter, who has led an uneventful middle-class life in Australia. Sam faces unrelenting danger when the outbreak of World War II makes him an enemy of the country that has been his only home, and for Florence the war delivers its own devastation. Author previously wrote 'The Currency Lads' and 'Against the Tide'.

Kent Town, S. Aust: Wakefield Press, 2007. Used. This is the story of Kaurna man Uncle Lewis O'Brien and his family, beginning with his great, great grandmother Kudnarto - the first Aboriginal woman to marry a white man in South Australia.

London: Penguin, 1994. Used. Rafael Yglesias?s novel of trauma, loss, and the bonds formed between victims of catastrophe. Max Klein suffers from many anxieties?including a terrible fear of flying?but after surviving a plane crash his worries vanish and he suddenly believes himself invincible. Back home, a psychiatrist puts him in touch with Carla, a victim of the same crash who lost her infant son and suffers from a morbid, debilitating depression. Now Max and Carla begin a relationship that is sometimes intimate, sometimes painful, and perhaps the only path to recovery for both. Fearless is a brilliant portrait of trauma and its aftermath?the shock of loss and the sometimes unexpected ways that people learn to cope with disaster. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of Rafael Yglesias, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author?s personal collection.

New York: HarperCollins, 2011. Used. The lives of two very different couples are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war.From the day in 1907 that eleven-year-old Riley Purefoy meets Nadine Waveney, daughter of a well-known orchestral conductor, he takes in the difference between their two families: his, working-class; hers, "posh" and artistic. Just a few years later, romance and these differences erupt simultaneously with the war in Europe. In a fit of fury and boyish pride, Riley enlists in the army and finds himself involved in the transformative nightmare of the twentieth century.

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used. The internationally bestselling author of Brethren and Crusade tells the cataclysmic story of the last days of the Knights Templar.Robyn Young's historical fiction has topped international bestseller lists and won praise from the likes of Raymond Khoury, Steve Berry, and Alison Weir. "The Fall of the Templars" chronicles an era few people know about?what happened when the Templars returned from the Crusades and found that the monarchs of Europe did not want an army of religious warriors back on European soil.Leaving the Christian empire in the East in ruins, Knight Templar Will Campbell returns to the West to discover that the Temple has forged an alliance with his enemy, King Edward of England, vowing to help the king wage war on Scotland. This pact against his homeland strikes at the core of Will's faith and allegiances, while his daughter, Rose, is led into a dangerous affair in the French royal household. Will now faces a choice: Should he protect… Read More

Readers Digest, Date of Publication. Used. Why should a man care for his parents when they failed to take care of him as a child?Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can?t afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. Now their debts and bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family?s future.A few miles away, his parents, Jin and Mae, live in the town?s most exclusive neighborhood, surrounded by the material comforts that Kyung desires for his wife and son. Growing up, they gave him every possible advantage?private tutors, expensive hobbies?but they never showed him kindness. Kyung can hardly bear to see them now, much less ask for their help. Yet when an act of violence leaves Jin and Mae unable to live on their own, the dynamic suddenly changes, and he?s compelled to take them in. For the first time in years, the Chos find themselves living under the same roof. Tensions quickly mount as Kyung?s proximity to his parents… Read More