6114 results for '"Gavin Younge'

In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her...

"A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for"-- Provided by publisher.

Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known...

Set in comtemporary Spain, a country rejoicing in newfound freedom but beset by terrorist violence, this novel follows the romance of a young politician and a militant girl of the political left who...

Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake...

"In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person...

Duckie, a duckling, and Snaps, a young crocodile, are told they cannot be friends since crocodiles eat ducks--but Snaps does not want to eat Duckie, and she comes up with an alternative.

Three gifted young dragons--Fathom, Clearsight, and the exceptionally powerful Darkstalker--navigate their dangerous magical abilities and intertwined fates in a story of a darkness that will...

When his parents are unable to care for him, a young boy finds unexpected comfort with his grandfather as they venture out at dawn to witness the annual return of the snow geese.

"The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old...

"Drawing on extensive correspondence by Leibniz and many leading figures of the age, Audrey Borowski paints a nuanced portrait of Leibniz in the 1670s, during his 'Paris sojourn' as a young diplomat...

Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters...

"The English Patient meets EM Foster, The English Problem is a stunning debut that looks at the insidiousness of colonialism and one young man's sexual awakening. In 1931 a young man from India...

The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted...

Amedea Lezze is a Venetian woman whose life is seemingly perfect. She is troubled, however, by a desire to escape the stifling rigidity of her life, and embarks on an affair with a young French...

Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations...

Told in two voices, Finnegan, a rescue dog mourning the loss of his previous life, is paired with Chase, a young orphaned cheetah, and together the two learn to trust again while discovering...

After her father is murdered, a young woman falls in love with Archer, a reclusive man who is mute as the result of a childhood accident, as they both try to overcome the trauma of their past and...

Shimazaki's 1906 classic of modern Japanese literature portrays a young man born into the Burakumin outcaste class and his struggle against both social discrimination and his own hypocrisy.

One morning Achilles, a young crocodile, insists that he will eat a child that day and refuses all other food, but when he actually finds a little girl, she puts him in his place.