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  I Hogarth

  Michael Dean

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  The great eighteenth century portraitist comes to life in this “gritty, bawdy and funny” rags to riches novel told in the voice of the artist himself (The New York Times).   William Hogarth was London’s artist par excellence, and his work—especially his satirical series of “modern moral subjects”—supplies the most enduring vision of the ebullience, enjoyments, and social iniquities of the eighteenth century.   And in I, Hogarth, he tells a ripping good yarn.   From a childhood spent in a debtor’s prison to his death in the arms of his wife, Hogarth recounts the incredible story of how he maneuvered his way into the household of prominent artist Sir James Thornhill, and from there to become one of England’s best portrait painters.   Through his marriage to Jane Thornhill, his fight for the Copyright Act, his unfortunate dip into politics, and his untimely death, “the voice in which Dean’s Hogarth tells his own story is rich and persuasive . . . Like stepping into a Hogarth painting” (The New York Times).  “A brilliant exercise in imagination and storytelling.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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  Anna Kanerina

  Leo Tolstoy

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  "Anna Karenina" is a novel by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, first published in serialized form between 1873 and 1877. The novel is often considered one of the pinnacles of realist fiction. The narrative revolves around a tragic story of a married aristocrat, Anna Karenina, and her doomed love affair with Count Vronsky, set against the backdrop of various other familial, social, and political threads. Themes include family, society, politics, morality, and the complexities of love.

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  A Petrol Scented Spring

  Ajay Close

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  The day after her wedding, Donella Ferguson Watson wakes up shackled to a man haunted by the past. The lonely days become weeks, months. Her husband Hugh, a prison doctor, will offer no explanation for their sexless marriage. She comes to suspect the answer lies with a hunger-striking suffragette who was force fed and held in solitary confinement. But what really happened between Hugh and his prisoner patient?

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  The Card Sharp

  Eric B. Ruark

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  A Card Sharp/Con man works the Mississippi River on one of the first class steamboats and plans to relieve as many people as possible of their gold and cash.  But the arrival of a wealthy planter and his slave, changes the card sharps plans.

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  She Loves Me Not - New and...

  Ron Hansen

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  Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called 'beautifully crafted' (The New York Times), 'unforgettable' (San Francisco Chronicle), and 'diverse and expansive' (The Washington Post). Ranging over subjects as diverse as Oscar Wilde, murder, dementia, and romance, this collection shows Ron Hansen at his storytelling best. Most of these pieces are set in the present with the balance set in the historical past. Surprising in its variety, She Loves Me Not shows Hansen at the height of his powers.

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  What You Sow

  Wallace Ford

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  Connoisseurs of edgy, contemporary African-American fiction find the novels of Wallace Ford prime  offerings. In this riveting sequel, a powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners’ money, he’s been living fast, but losing even faster.

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