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  The House on Via Gemito - A Novel

  Domenico Starnone

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Washington Post·Kirkus Reviews  A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE  This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone’s reputation as one of Italy’s greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction, one that is steeped in Neapolitan lore.  A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren’t for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow Neapolitan artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but also arrogant and resentful, Federí is scarred by constant disappointment. He is a larger-than-life character, a liar, a fabulist, and his fantasies shape the lives of those around him, especially his young son, Mimi, short for Domenico, who will spend a lifetime trying to get out from under his father’s shadow.  Starnone, a finalist for the National Book Award with Trick, author of New York Times notable book of the year, Ties, and the critically acclaimed Trust, takes readers beyond the slim, novella-length works for which he is known by American readers to create a vast fresco of family, fatherhood, and modern Naples.

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  Just Like Magic

  Tara Wyatt

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  With forty knocking on my door, it feels like my life is falling apart, especially after my recent divorce. 
  Worse, I'm staring down an important deadline while tackling the worst writer’s block of my career. I need a change, and fast, so I put New York City in my rearview mirror and head north to the picturesque small town of Gossamer Falls. Two weeks of peace and quiet—just what I need to get out of my head and finish this book. 
  I’m expecting to spend my days staring at my laptop and exploring the tourist town, but I’m wholly unprepared for the hotel’s owner—sexy, sweet, charming Adam Shephard. 
  I should be focused on my overdue manuscript, not Adam’s sinful eyes and muscled arms. Or how his wavy hair falls across his forehead. Or the way his deep voice makes me feel things I haven’t felt in a very long time—which shouldn't matter to me, because Adam is not rebound material. He's sworn off love, and dating. 
  He's a distraction I cannot afford to indulge in. 
  But when I visit the allegedly magical falls, things start to happen. Things like Adam kissing the absolute daylights out of me and waking up something I thought my divorce had permanently smothered. 
  After two weeks in this sleepy little town, I know I’m in trouble. I can’t get enough of Adam Shephard—his laugh, his body, his gloriously dirty mouth. 
  But my life is elsewhere, and I don’t belong in Gossamer Falls. Even if it’s exactly where my heart wants to stay.

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  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis -...

  Max Shulman

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  Riotous tales of the college playboy-next-door—the basis for the iconic television show. “Shulman’s creation was born a sitcom hero” (The A.V. Club). Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered—sometimes he’s as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from chemistry to law to journalism. But no matter what subject he should be studying, Dobie always has a girl on his mind.   In “Love Is a Fallacy,” Shulman’s best-known short story that to this day is taught in writing classes and English survey courses as an archetypal example of the genre, Dobie finds the perfect bride-to-be. She’s beautiful and gracious, but not too smart—a flaw that he sets out to fix, with the most hilarious and ironic of consequences. In “The Unlucky Winner,” Dobie and Clothilde Ellingboe cut corners in class to make more time for their dates. But after an impossible English assignment sends the couple deep into the stacks to plagiarize an obscure essay, Dobie finds himself in a ridiculous bind. And in “She Shall Have Music,” Dobie can’t focus on his duties as circulation manager for the college humor magazine because his girlfriend, Pansy, has been shipped off to New York by her purple-faced father. The desperate Romeo hatches a plan to save the magazine and visit his girl, but a series of bad decisions and a Lithuanian wedding band threaten to ruin everything.

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  Jack the Dullard (Story Time...

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in it lived an old proprietor, who had two sons, which two young men thought themselves too clever by half. They wanted to go out and woo the King’s daughter; for the maiden in question had publicly announced that she would choose for her husband that youth who could arrange his words best.

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  The Complete Lowell Collection -...

  Tracie Peterson, Judith Miller

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  Two of Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller's Beloved Series in a 6-in-1 Collection 
   
  Includes 
  · Daughter of the Loom 
  · A Fragile Design 
  · These Tangled Threads 
  · A Tapestry of Hope 
  · A Love Woven True 
  · The Pattern of Her Heart 
   
  The Bells of Lowell series unfolds in a small town during the late 19th century, weaving together the lives of three young women. In Daughter of the Loom, Lilly Armbruster battles against the mill owners while navigating a complex relationship with her childhood friend and one-time betrothed. A Fragile Design follows Arabella Newberry's quest for independence while struggling with her heart as two men vie for her love. These Tangled Threads explores Daughtie Winfield's delicate romance with an Irish artisan as they work together to help runaway enslaved people.  
    
  The Lights of Lowell series includes the novels A Tapestry of Hope, A Love Woven True, and The Pattern of Her Heart and explores the compelling tale of a plantation owner's daughter who holds a dangerous secret. Her unwavering determination to free the people her father has enslaved threatens to undo her family as well as the ties that bind the area's burgeoning textile industry to the Southern cotton growers.

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  The Gold Service - A New Sci-Fi...

  Allen Ivers

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  What kind of job could the Imperial Navy have for people like us?◆◆◆Captain Osyen and his merry band of cutthroats and conmen were scratching out a living on the edge of Imperial controlled space. They were a ship full of degenerates, petty criminals, if not outright scum—so a full-blown Imperial Dreadnaught arriving to detain their ship seems like an overreaction.In exchange for not going back to prison, the Imperial Admiral works out a deal. The Empire needs some...contractors...to retrieve an object of religious importance, but they can't be seen to have their hands in it. So they hire out to some dangerous folk with blood-stained triggers, and they're willing to pay—in both pardons and coin.But between Osyen and his freedom is only the most lawless space in the entire galaxy, home of an old friend who may not be so happy to see him. To make matters worse, there's a rogue Imperial officer who seems dead set on ensuring they fail.◆◆◆The Capital-verse just got bigger with this new thrilling action/adventure series. Join the colorful ensemble—a handsome conman, a snarky gunslinger, a prudent cyborg pilot, a reckless pixie of a bruiser, a cranky aging mechanic, a disgraced royal, and their young cabin boy of destiny—in an adventure that reviewers have praised as "...full of twists, turns and back-stabbing" and "...filled a Firefly-shaped hole in my heart..."Read less

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