Henry Carter Hull

Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.

The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery

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Zee Finch, a therapist, decides to walk away from her practice after one of her patients commits suicide and returns home to care for her father, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but finds herself confronted with locked away feelings of grief she has kept hidden about her mother's own suicide.

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika wakes up in a mental hospital after a failed suicide attempt and learns that the pills she took damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live, and in the week that follows, Veronika learns some important lessons about life and love.

Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, the other desperately wants to have child. This is what's at the heart of Silas House's third, masterful novel, which tells the story of Easter and Anneth, tragically left parentles as children, who must...

Just when you think you know someone… The Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead, and all she wants is the chance to create a new life for herself and her six-year-old child. Then she discovers something in the crawl space beneath her parents' house. Something that makes her question her father's innocence. Or the innocence...

This masterpiece of modern literature by the author of Orlando is an intimate and probing account of a single day in the life of a London society woman. It's the spring of 1923 and Clarissa Dalloway must prepare her Westminster home for the guests she will receive this evening. As the wife of a Parliament Minister, proper decorum is of upmost importance, and she decides to buy the flowers herself. Walking through the streets of London, Clarissa's...

A fictionalized account of events surrounding the death of Vincent van Gogh in 1890, in which the artist's friends, Lucien Lessard and Henri Toulouse-Latrec, travel around nineteenth-century Paris in search of answers about how van Gogh died.

" " William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction " First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family--Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton's funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. " Written...

"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...