Manners and customs

  • Our numbered days

    Creator

    Hilborn, Neil

    Abstract

    When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly, Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, Our Numbered Days. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these poems are anything but saccharine.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Gardena

    Button Poetry

    Minneapolis

    Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press

    Non spécifié
  • The inspector-general : a comedy in five acts

    Creator

    Gogol, Nikolai

    Abstract

    Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much more than that. Famed Russian writer Nikolai Gogol intended it to be a veiled but pointed satire of the ineptitude, corruption, and greed that exemplified the Russian bureaucracy in the nineteenth century. The witty play was later used as the basis for a movie version starring Danny Kaye (1949).

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Garfield Heights, Ohio]

    Duke Classics

    Non spécifié
  • The spoils : a play

    Creator

    Eisenberg, Jesse

    Abstract

    A powerful play about wealth, narcissism, and entitlement: "Eisenberg writes funny, but he is also a real storyteller—moody and dangerous and even loving."—Newsday.—Nobody likes Ben. Ben doesn't even like Ben. He's been kicked out of grad school, lives off his parents' money, and bullies everyone in his life, including his roommate, an earnest Nepalese immigrant. When Ben discovers that his grade school crush is marrying a straitlaced banker, he sets out to destroy their relationship and win her back.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Grove Press

    New York

    Grove Press

    Non spécifié
  • My life in full : work, family, and our future

    Creator

    Nooyi, Indra

    Abstract

    A New York Times Bestseller. An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo. For a dozen years as one of the world's most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company -- and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time -- she transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous pursuit of excellence, and a deep sense of purpose.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Portfolio

    New York

    Portfolio

    Non spécifié
  • Ten thousand stitches : Regency faerie tales, book 2

    Creator

    Atwater, Olivia

    Abstract

    A housemaid needs some magical help when she falls for a high-society gentleman in this captivating historical fantasy full of wit, charm, and heart-fluttering romance. Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr. Benedict Ashbrooke. There's only one problem: Effie is a housemaid, and a housemaid cannot marry a gentleman. It seems that Effie is out of luck until she stumbles into the faerie realm of Lord Blackthorn, who is only too eager to help her win Mr. Ashbrooke's heart.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Orbit

    [S.l.]

    Hachette UK

    Non spécifié
  • The school of mirrors

    Creator

    Stachniak, Eva.

    Abstract

    National bestseller. From #1 internationally bestselling author Eva Stachniak comes this rich, engrossing tale of love, deception and scandal in eighteenth-century France. During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the king’s favourite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the king. When the time is right, each girl is smuggled into the palace of Versailles, with its legendary Hall of Mirrors.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Doubleday Canada

    Toronto

    Doubleday Canada

    Non spécifié
  • This is happiness

    Creator

    Williams, Niall

    Abstract

    Niall Williams's new novel, Time of the Child, is available now! Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and Real Simple. A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Bloomsbury Publishing

    London

    Bloomsbury

    Non spécifié
  • Longshadow : Regency faerie tales, book 3

    Creator

    Atwater, Olivia

    Abstract

    Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians—but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper. The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved. But while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believes that she is capable of doing so. Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Orbit

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Orbit

    Non spécifié
  • Half a soul : Regency faerie tales, book 1

    Creator

    Atwater, Olivia

    Abstract

    "Whimsical, witty, and brimming over with charm" (India Holton), Olivia Atwater's delightful debut will transport you to a magical version of Regency England, where the only thing more meddlesome than a fairy is a marriage-minded mother! It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul. Ever since she was cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has had no sense of fear or embarrassment—an unfortunate condition that leaves her prone to accidental scandal.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Orbit

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Starwatch Press

    Non spécifié
  • East of Eden

    Creator

    Steinbeck, John

    Abstract

    A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Classics

    New York

    Penguin Classics

    Non spécifié