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Riceyman steps
Par Arnold Bennett. 1923
First published in 1923, this James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner depicts a miserly London bookseller's life with his new…
wife and their kindhearted maid. The husband's frugality causes him and his wife to fall ill with malnutrition and reduces the servant to stealing household food and delaying living her own life with her troubled ex-soldier loverOtis Spofford
Par Beverly Cleary. 1953
Mischievous but lovable Otis, the class cut-up, is given his come-uppance by gentle, timid Ellen Tebbits in this humorous story…
about elementary schools, PTA meetings, and antics of children. For grades 3-6The awakening, and selected stories (Penguin American library)
Par Kate Chopin. 1984
First published in 1899, The Awakening is a novel about a liberated young woman who rebels against the constraints of…
marriage and engages in extramarital love. The results are disastrous, in the book and on the career of the author. In an introduction to the novel and the twelve short stories in this collection, the editor reflects on Chopin's continuing impact on feminist literatureLetters from my windmill (Penguin classics)
Par Alphonse Daudet. 1978
A collection of short, humorous stories by the French author Daudet, first published in 1869. Daudet lived alternately in Paris…
and Provence, and his fiction explores the difference between the northern and the southern characters and temperaments. One of the most successful novelists in France, Daudet's work was admired by Flaubert, Dickens, and Henry JamesCousin Bette
Par Honoré Balzac. 1991
First published in France in 1846, this classic novel paints colorful scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Parisian life. Lisbeth Fischer, or Cousin…
Bette, an eccentric, poor relative who works in gold and silver lace, is jealous of her beautiful cousin Adeline, wife of Baron Hector Hulot. Cousin Bette's deceptive behavior develops into a revengeful plot against her patronizing relativesNight over water
Par Ken Follett. 1991
It is September 1939, and England has just declared war on Germany. A group of passengers, fleeing the approaching conflict,…
board a luxurious Pan Am Clipper for a thirty-hour flight to New York. Among them are an English fascist and his family, a Jewish refugee, a jewel thief, a princess, and an American widow and her brother. None are prepared for the nightmare journey over the ocean. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. BestsellerSilent prey
Par John Sandford. 1992
In the sequel to Eyes of Prey (BR 08532), serial killer Dr. Bekker manages to escape custody during his trial.…
When his killing pattern surfaces in New York City, the police turn to Lucas Davenport, the ex-cop who captured Bekker the first time. Trying to flush Bekker out, Davenport helps an ex-lover on the force investigate suspected police vigilantism. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexA sportsman's notebook
Par Ivan Turgenev. 1992
These sketches from a hunter's album were first published in Russia between 1847 and 1852. The stories are noted for…
their poetic country settings, their contrasts between hero and heroine, and their objective portrayal of heroes of the Russian intelligentsia. A hatred of injustice marks all of Turgenev's writings, and it is believed that this book inspired the uprising of the serfs in 1861Thimble summer
Par Elizabeth Enright. 1938
One scorching day in the middle of a drought, Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble which she believes to be…
magic. Good luck begins that night with a rainfall that saves her father's crops. For grades 4-7. Newbery MedalThe secret agent: a simple tale
Par Joseph Conrad. 1984
First published in 1907. Set in a London back street, amid a group of anarchists. Focuses on Verloc, an agent-provocateur…
in the employ of the Russian embassy in London. Conrad paints a satirical picture of Verloc's relationships with his employers, with indolent civil servants, with corrupt police inspectors, with revolutionary anarchists, and above all with members of his own familyClayhanger
Par Arnold Bennett. 1989
First published in 1910. Edwin Clayhanger is the central figure in this portrayal of Victorian lower-middle-class society. A shy young…
man, Edwin is bullied by his father, Darius, but he succeeds in developing his interests in spite of a restrictive environment. One of Edwin's interests is Hilda Lessways, a young woman from Staffordshire. Hilda proves to be independent and enigmatic, while Edwin proves that there are many ways to look at loveDeath in Venice and other stories
Par Thomas Mann. 1991
The title story was first published in Germany in 1913. English translations of Death in Venice and other stories were…
first published in 1930. This collection of writings by the German author develops the themes of the past's influence on the present, the meaning of death, the alienation of the artist, and the inner struggle of intellectualism versus sensualismAn agent in place
Par Robert Littell. 1991
Fearing the end of the Cold War, a mysterious, autonomous American agency hatches a plot to thwart changes in the…
Soviet Union. The bureau's patsy is agent Ben Bassett, sent to Moscow supposedly to eradicate all paper traces of a CIA operation called Ironweed. While both American and Soviet operatives track his movements, Ben further complicates the plan by falling in love with a Russian poet. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong languageMiss Hickory
Par Carolyn Bailey. 1946
The adventures of Miss Hickory, a country doll made of an applewood twig with a hickory nut for a head,…
and her unusual neighbors. Left behind when her owner goes to school in Boston, Miss Hickory must spend the long New Hampshire winter alone. For grades 3-6. Newbery MedalCranford
Par Elizabeth Gaskell. 1972
First printed in the 1850s in serial form in Household Words, a periodical published by Charles Dickens. The Jenkyns family…
is at the center of life in the English village of Cranford, surrounded by characters ranging from the genial to the vulgar, each attempting to lead a genteel life. But Cranford is subject to the dramas of everyday life, complete with the unexpected quirks of human behaviorYoung Fu of the upper Yangtze
Par Elizabeth Lewis. 1932
Rogues and bandits seem to rule China during the turbulent 1920s. But Young Fu has moved from his country home…
to the city, and he is determined to be an honest, hardworking coppersmith's apprentice. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalThe house of mirth
Par Edith Wharton. 1991
First published in 1905. Lily Bart, the orphaned daughter of a New York merchant, is endowed with beauty and charm…
and hopelessly addicted to the pleasures of luxury and wealth. Though she relentlessly pursues her goal to marry someone with money, she is attracted to Lawrence Selden, a lawyer of modest meansThe hills beyond
Par Thomas Wolfe. 1941
When Wolfe died at the age of thirty-seven, he left behind numerous unpublished stories. Ten of these short stories are…
collected here, along with the title piece, a series of sketches. Also included is an essay by Wolfe's last editorMiddlemarch: a study of provincial life
Par George Eliot. 1991
First published in 1872. A morality tale set in a provincial English town. The author links the lives of her…
middle-class characters in two essentially separate stories. Their personal lives reflect the contrast between a shallow, selfish existence and one made worthwhile and content by a more genial, vital response to the world around themThe twenty-one balloons
Par William Pène Du Bois. 1947
Professor Sherman sets off on a flight across the Pacific in a giant balloon, and three weeks later he is…
over the wrong ocean with too many balloons. The adventure is narrated by the professor with hilarious solemnity. For grades 4-7. Newbery Medal