On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon....

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia s greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the... Less

In this lyrical and spellbinding book, Goldman tells the stories of 15 Central American men who have come to America--most on their life savings--to staff the crew of the Urus . The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a veteran of the war in Guatemala, a young man haunted by the loss of his last love. As he works up the courage to start a new life, his story and those of his shipmates come to life, illuminating the conflicts and triumphs of the human heart.

ISBN13: 9780375726651. ISBN10: 0375726659. by Alistair MacLeod. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 99

Free Worldwide Delivery : Underworld : Paperback : Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education Company) : 9780684848150 : 0684848155 : 27 Jul 1998 : A gloriously fused history of the past 50 years that offers a key to understanding American culture, "Underworld" moves through the nation's diverse landscapes, analyzing the mesmerizing interplay between two central characters, and "(offering) us another history of ourselves, the unofficial underground moments" (Michael Ondaatje). A National Book Award Finalist.

ISBN13: 9780312199517. ISBN10: 0312199511. by Jim Crace. Published by MacMillan Higher Education. Edition: 98

ISBN13: 9780892552351. ISBN10: 0892552352. by Earl Lovelace. Published by W.W. Norton & Co.. Edition: 96

ISBN13: 9780060976835. ISBN10: 0060976837. by A. J. Verdelle. Published by HarperCollins Publishers. Edition: 95

Free Worldwide Delivery : Reservation Blues : Paperback : Pgw : 9780802141903 : 0802141900 : 07 Feb 2005 : In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar.

ISBN13: 9780307473462. ISBN10: 0307473465. by Bernhard Schlink. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 08

ISBN13: 9780375707971. ISBN10: 0375707972. by Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 97

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ISBN13: 9780684848150. ISBN10: 0684848155. by Don DeLillo. Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Edition: 97

ISBN13: 9780385494144. ISBN10: 0385494149. by Ian McEwan. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 97

ISBN13: 9780802141903. ISBN10: 0802141900. by Sherman Alexie. Published by Perseus Distribution. Edition: 95

ISBN13: 9780802144102. ISBN10: 0802144101. by Guy Vanderhaeghe. Published by Perseus Distribution. Edition: 09

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ISBN13: 9781845230159. ISBN10: 1845230159. by David Dabydeen. Published by Independent Publishers Group. Edition: 3RD 05

ISBN13: 9780802135483. ISBN10: 080213548X. by Francisco Goldman. Published by Perseus Distribution. Edition: 97

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