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  The Mill on the Floss Volume 2

  George Eliot

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  The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot, is a poignant and deeply moving exploration of familial love and the consequences of personal choices. The story centers around Maggie Tulliver, whose love for her brother Tom and her dreams of a better life in the small town of Dulcote are overshadowed by societal expectations and her family's struggles. As Maggie navigates her passions and aspirations, she forms a deep bond with Stephen Guest, a gentleman who challenges her sense of duty. Eliot's novel is a powerful examination of love, loss, and the human capacity for growth, set against the backdrop of the English countryside.

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  Empire of Glass

  Kaitlin Solimine

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  In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called “Empire of Glass,” a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book’s final chapter?  A grand, experimental epic—Lao K’s story is told in footnotes that run throughout the book—that chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the lens of one family’s experiences, Empire of Glass is an investigation into the workings of human memory and the veracity of oral history that pushes the boundaries of language and form in stunning and unforgettable ways.

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  3 Stories - Set in St Petersburg...

  Nikolai Gogol, L T Meade, Anton...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.  
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Set in St Petersburg 
  02 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 
  03 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade 
  04 - Misery by Anton Chekhov

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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot

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  Middlemarch follows the lives of residents in a fictional 19th century English town grappling with love, ambition, and societal constraints. Dorothea Brooke, a passionate young woman, makes a misguided marriage to a scholar for intellectual fulfillment, only to find disappointment. Similarly, idealistic doctor Tertius Lydgate finds his career and marriage thwarted by small-town politics and his own choices. The novel explores themes of idealism, realism, and the complexities of life in a provincial setting.

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  Threshing of Straw

  Kim Catron

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  WINNER OF THE GREAT NOVEL CONTEST. MORE THAN 25,000 COPIES SOLD! 
  A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkable years before. A father lost in his memories of the Korean War, and a daughter caught in the middle of it all. Georgia. Thanksgiving week. 1962. 
  MACEY MAY JOHNSON knows something isn’t right when her mama puts her alone on a bus to her grandma’s farm with strict instructions to wait to be picked up at the station. She’s only nine and has never been allowed to travel by herself before, but her daddy’s gone and the bills can’t be paid. And Macey May knows her family keeps secrets. She can feel it in her bones. 
  Her grandma keeps secrets from her mama. Her mama keeps secrets from her. Her daddy, well, he keeps them even from himself. And now Macey May has one of her own. A terrible secret. But which secrets are meant to be kept, and which ones are meant to be told?

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  The Return of the Mohicans - A...

  James Edmund Adams

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  “All men are created equal … and nothing will ever be the same again in this country.” 
  For 500 years, disease, persecution, forced removal, and outright slaughter of Native Americans affected millions of souls. Treating Native Americans as subhuman, "Indian savages," the US government forced countless indigenous humans who survived into poverty on reservations. 
  Their ancestors in the Spirit World watched hundreds of treaties broken and continue to see their descendants suffer. So, they have raised a vast army led by gifted recruits and a Champion chosen from among the living to conquer an evil Lord and attempt to take down a callous, inhuman President. 
  Dr. Jeromy Whitefeather Ph.D., a Professor of Native American Studies, is transported to the past, and he visits and trains in the Spirit World with a Great Chief named Chingachgook, who was thought to be the last of his Mohican people. He undergoes a dramatic change, gaining courage, strength, and the fiercest warrior fighting skills, and leads a legion of Spirit Warriors in a wild attempt to rewrite American history.

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