Jack the Bodiless (Galactic Milieu Trilogy Ser., 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

MAY, JULIAN

Fantasy

Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated

In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Daley, Rosie

Cooking by Ingredient

An inside look at the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA and the cult of intelligence / by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks ; introduction by Melvin Wulf

Politics & Social Sciences

Marks, John D.

Marchetti, Victor

Politics & Government

THE FATE OF THE EARTH JONATHAN SCHELL

The Fate Of The Earth

Engineering & Transportation

Schell, Jonathan

Engineering

As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter—made new for a disbelieving age.

Roger's Version

Literature & Fiction

UPDIKE, John.

Contemporary

In this long-awaited bioraphy, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions - is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. Based on fresh material from many hitherto-untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. His Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and lovers, his clothes, coiffures, and the decor of his rooms - all are presented here in vivid detail. The saga of his 1882 American tour is recounted with a wealth of new details; also his later impact on the bastions of the French literary establishment. The London of the Nineties, of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, is evoked alongside Paris of the "belle epoque" and the Greece, Italy and North Africa of Wilde's travels. Ellmann's definitive critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical new aesthetic who was perilously at odds with Victorian society. After his period of success and daring, the fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas is followed by exposure, imprisonment, a few wretched years abroad and death in exile. The tragic end of Wilde's life leaves the reader with a sense of compassion and grief for the protagonist. This edition make the popular and best selling biography available in paperback for the first time.

Oscar Wilde

ELLMANN, RICHARD

Biographies & Memoirs

A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazine he works for, discovers that a Cezanne painting has been stolen from there. With the editor of the magazine as the suspect thief, he is sent on pursuit of her and the Cezanne through London, the South of France and New York.

Chasing Cézanne

MAYLE, PETER

Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in unexpected ways.

Licks of Love : Short Stories and a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered

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Personal History

GRAHAM,Katharine

Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. Glamorama is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism.

Glamorama

Bret, Easton Ellis

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