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There Are No Words. A Comedian With Feathers. Mark Van Aken Williams. The Prophet Of Sorrow. Leaving The Hall Light On: All the Bad Things. Monday to Saturday 9. E-Gift Coupon , click here. Insights Insights, Account, Orders. Why Shop at SapnaOnline. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy shipping industrialist, moves his family from China to the island of Oahu. But something ancient follows the Leongs to Hawaii, haunting them. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health.
And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology. The author, Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century in an the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.
The invasion of white society threatens to change their traditional way of life, and they must choose to fight or assimilate. The book is a powerful portrait of a fading way of life and culminates with the historic Marias Massacre of This now-classic novel follows two women: In the autumn of , Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night—a desperate measure that proves calamitous when the child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the side of the road.
She claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd St. The image of a brutal killer is slowly revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, pulling the reluctant cop into a battle that may cost him everything.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland to New York harbor. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free. Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the slavery battleground of the Kansas Territory in Over the ensuing months, Henry—nicknamed Little Onion—conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive and finds himself at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in The product of their union is white-skinned, blonde Josey, who has never known her mother, who was murdered at her birth.
Grace deftly weaves together the stories of Josey and Naomi in a sweeping, intergenerational saga. Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. A spellbinding historical fiction novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and is drawn into their world of intrigue.
Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice. It is , and the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity.
Louisa, a young maid at the hotel determined to befriend him, wins his attention through a shared love of pigeons; with her we hear his tragic and tremendous life story unfold. In , the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home.
Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children. Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. In , four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk.
They call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Author Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland.
After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life.
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy.
A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath takes a case that seems impossible to win. Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country?
Tracy Chevalier introduces Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in , only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. On March 2, , nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin.
On February 22, , Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel — in its form and voice — completely unlike anything you have read before.
Ninety miles north of Seattle on the Washington coast lies Bellingham Bay, where a rough settlement founded in the s would become the town of Whatcom. Here is the intimate, murderous tale of three men. Clare Fishburn believes that greatness lies in store for him. John Ireland Sharp, an educated orphan, abandons hope when he sees socialists expel the Chinese workers from the region. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers.
Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember. The reviewer who wrote, "Only somebody who has flown open cockpit tail draggers could write so vividly about the experience," was spot on.
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