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  Old Filth

  Jane Gardam

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  First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. “Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters” (The New York Times Book Review). 
   
  Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away. 
   
  Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling’s “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” that retraces much of the twentieth century’s torrid and momentous history.  
   
  SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE 
   
  “Will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and—a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture—adult.” —The Washington Post 
   
  “Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning . . . Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting.” —The Seattle Times 
   
  “A masterpiece of storytelling.” —The Dallas Morning News

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  Blood in the Dust - Winner of a...

  Bill Swiggs

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  WINNER OF THE BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE'Essential reading for all adventure fans. Honour and courage in the wild and unpredictable Outback.' Wilbur Smith 1853,  Victoria, Australia.  Five bushrangers led by the murderous outlaw  Warrigal Anderson raid a small homestead. When they ride away,  nineteen-year-old Toby O'Rourke's life is changed forever. His parents  lay dead at his feet and his brother, Patrick, is badly wounded.But  Toby O'Rourke is made of steel forged in the hardship of colonial life.  Forced into adulthood, he and Patrick will seek to restore the family  fortunes and outwit not only the rich businessman who conspired to rob  them of their birth right, but the vicious men who murdered their  parents . . .

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  My Mother's Ring - A Holocaust...

  Dana Fitzwater Cornell

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  The Holocaust didn't really end in 1945. Not for everyone. Even after the war, survivors' lives were influenced by their terrifying experiences. Some of them were never able to retell their stories-for others, it took decades.In My Mother's Ring: A Holocaust Historical Novel, Henryk Frankowski feels compelled to pen his memoir and finally share his poignant story from his hospital bed as he lay dying. His carefree childhood as a Jewish boy in Warsaw, Poland, is never far from his mind as he recalls the tumultuous world he endured during the Holocaust. Henryk speaks uninhibitedly about the intense bond he has with his family, particularly his adoration for his nurturing mother. Ultimately, the Frankowskis' lives are broken apart as World War II ignites and the Nazis storm across Europe, imprisoning and killing millions. As senseless restrictions are implemented, living conditions are compressed, circumstances turn dire, and callous disregard for human life runs rampant, Henryk must find the resilience to carry on. All the while, he dreams of a family reunion in Warsaw . . .

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  Winter Is Not Forever - Seasons...

  Janette Oke

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  Internationally best-selling inspirational author Janette  Oke is beloved for her novels of faith. Winter Is Not Forever is  the continuation of the touching Seasons of the Heart saga  begun in Once Upon a Summer (K1041) and continued in The  Winds of Autumn (K1052). Featuring a folksy narration by Johnny  Heller, this tale of a young man ready to graduate from high school  and begin his adult life is touching and poignant.

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  Texas Summer

  Terry Southern

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  An evocative, poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Texas in the 1930sThrough events small and large, thirteen-year-old Harold Stevens grows up during a pivotal summer in the red-dirt backcountry of West Texas. With his friend C.K. Crow, the black field hand who works for Harold’s father, he shoots deer and quail, fishes for catfish, mends fences, grows and learns about marijuana, and tests his emerging manhood against bullies, bulls, and the irresistible charms of his horse-riding older cousin. During a hysterical trip to a circus sideshow, Harold and a buddy sneak backstage to see “The Great Hermaphrodite” and the “funny little old Monkey Man,” whom they try to buy a beer. But danger waits on the fringe of this innocent time. When C.K.’s brother, Big Nail, appears after escaping from a chain gang, an inevitable and violent confrontation between the brothers is set in motion—a confrontation that will mark the end of Harold’s childhood.   This insideview of Southern’s roots in Alvarado, Texas, where pastoral innocence belied an undercurrent of racism and violence, brings this novel of a boy’s transition to maturity vividly alive.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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  Casting Off

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

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  The Cazalet family saga continues as they struggle to adapt to a new world after WWII in this international-bestselling series for fans of Downton Abbey. The war is over, but for the Cazalets—and England—the challenges continue. Against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the family soldiers on in the wake of disappointment, heartbreak, and tragedy.   Returning home after five long years, Rupert Cazalet struggles to adapt to civilian life back in England. And his wife, Zoe, harbors a guilty secret. Young wife and mother Louise Cazalet, trapped in a loveless marriage to a famous portrait painter, searches for a way out. Cazalet cousins Polly and Clary must face life in a new world, their hopes and ideals changed forever by the ravages of war. And Rachel’s self-sacrificing nature could cost her her relationship with Margot Sidney. But the family comes together again as three generations of Cazalets struggle to hold onto Home Place, the beloved Sussex estate that has been their refuge and their heart.   Against the titanic sweep of history, as they are tested by infidelities, divorce, unimaginable loss, and the promise of renewed love, the Cazalets try to cast off the sins and sorrows of the past and sail bravely toward the future. 

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