Recovered Books – serie
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22 produkter
Mortal Leap
Häftad, 2024
210 kr
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A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben …
No More Giants
Häftad, 2023
215 kr
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A gripping story of a young woman growing up in the harsh setting of a Nevada ranch in the 1940s. No More Giants combines a deep love for the land with a bracingly honest view of family conflicts and the loss of dreams. Jenny struggles to survive and escape from the frustrations and hatred of her …
Gentleman Overboard
Häftad, 2021
185 kr
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Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today’s readers to launch Boiler House Press’s new series, Recovered Books. Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in …
Time: The Present
Selected Stories
Häftad, 2022
222 kr
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Time: The Present collects the best short stories of one of the finestAmerican writers of the 1930s, Tess Slesinger.An Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Tess Slesinger was one of the most innovative and original short story writers of her generation.She dealt with issues of sexuality, economics, …
Pull Devil, Pull Baker
Häftad, 2022
198 kr
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Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written.The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russiannobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the pauper’sward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a friendship, she foundherself fascinated by the …
Two Thousand Million Man-Power
Häftad, 2022
208 kr
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‘A 20th century literary classic!’ This was best-selling novelist Rachel Hore’s reaction when asked to introduce Gertrude Trevelyan’s 1937 novel Two Thousand Million Man-Power. Utterly forgotten for over 80 years, neither the book nor its author are mentioned in any history of 20th century English …
Sanity Inspectors
Häftad, 2023
215 kr
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What is truth in a world filled with lies? What is sanity when everyone in charge seems mad? How can good people survive in a system where everyone is compromised and corrupted? These are the questions Friedrich Deich examines in The Sanity Inspectors, his novel about a German psychiatrist …
Quarry
Av Jane White
Häftad, 2023
215 kr
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Todd, Randy, and Carter are teenagers, grammar school boys who come across a younger boy while roaming the countryside around their commuter town. They decide to hold him hostage in a small cave in an abandoned quarry and then consider what to do next. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding needed a …
Time Stood Still
Häftad, 2023
192 kr
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A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. A passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects.
William’s Wife
Häftad, 2023
215 kr
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When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, …
As It Was in the Beginning
Häftad, 2024
215 kr
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One of the most audacious of all modernist novels. Millicent, Lady Cheseborough -- fifty, widowed, rejected by her much younger lover -- lies dying in a nursing home, the victim of a stroke. As she nears death, her thoughts go back through her life in a desperate attempt to find its meaning.With …
Red House Alley
Häftad, 2024
324 kr
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Red House Alley is the first complete English translation of Else Jerusalem's Der Heilige Skarabäus, her revolutionary novel about sex workers in 19th century Vienna. Jerusalem ripped away the veil of moral hypocrisy that viewed prostitutes as predators who lured men into their clutches, showing …
Bitter Roots
Häftad, 2024
215 kr
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When fourteen-year-old Pauly takes a swim in the Clark Fork River one summer day, he doesn’t expect to see a boy drown. Surrounded by everyday violence in his Montana town, Pauly is determined to prove himself, navigating the awkward fumbles of boyhood against a backdrop of strikes, gang fights, …
Trance by Appointment
Häftad, 2025
215 kr
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Trance by Appointment is the story of Jean, an otherwise ordinary working-class London girl. But Jean has what her mother calls “the Sight.” She sees what no one else can: the future. At first, under the patient guidance of Madame Eva, she learns to control this talent and begins to work as a …
Solitary Confinement
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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Parachuted into France as a British secret agent, Christopher Burney was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he spent 526 days in complete isolation. With little human contact and nothing to distract him, Burney developed a mental and …
Makeshift
Häftad, 2025
239 kr
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A fascinating and long-forgotten novel about the experiences of a German Jewish woman from the end of the First World War to the mid-1930s, her growing awareness of the rise of Nazism and her search for a home as a refugee. The story of the struggle to establish an identity in an unstable and …
Season's Greetings
Häftad, 2026
234 kr
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Season's Greetings captures the mood of New York City and its people, their humor, fantasies, grudges, and hopes. Full of the atmosphere of the 1940s, it's like taking a trip back in time, walking through snowy streets, traveling by bus and subway, squeezing through crowded department store aisles …
Vengeance is Mine
Häftad, 2026
190 kr
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A Jewish prisoner, beaten and abused by his captors, finds himself alone with his concentration camp commandant. The commandant's back is turned. His pistol lies within reach. What should the prisoner do?Written in 1943 while Friedrich Torberg, a Viennese Jew, was living in exile in California, …
And So Did I
Häftad, 2025
172 kr
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A book decades ahead of its time, And So Did I established a new model for the memoir, one built from moments of intense observation, candid self-reflection, courageous honesty, and irrepressible humor. It opens with the comedy of a man being struck by an automobile and walking away unscathed and …
We Too Are Drifting
Av Gale Wilhelm
Häftad, 2026
190 kr
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We Too Are Drifting is a landmark in American literature, the first mainstream novel that dealt with lesbian relationships in a straightforward, unapologetic manner. Written in spare, precise prose, it relates sculptor Jan Morale’s affair with the married Madeline and her love for Victoria, a …
An American Journey
Av Ethel Mannin
Häftad, 2026
162 kr
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In the spring of 1965, British novelist Ethel Mannin decided to see America "the hard way"—traveling by bus from New York to California and back. What she records in An American Journey is all too reminiscent of today's America: racial discrimination, economic inequality, environmental …
The Montana Stories
Av David Long
Häftad, 2026
203 kr
Kommande
The Montana Stories collects David Long's best stories set in Montana from across his career, from "The Flood of '64" to "Pie Social," written for this book. It superbly demonstrates his unique talent for getting inside his characters in a manner that illuminates but never exploits, that reveals …
