Fiction
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Amreekiya: A Novel [Hardback]
Lena Mahmoud (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780813176376
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: The University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
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Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outc... .... Learn More -
Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader [Hardback]
Bobbie Ann Mason (Author); George Saunders (Other)
£26.50ISBN: 9780813175454
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a "literary phenomenon." Anne Tyler hailed Mason as "a full-fledged master of the short story." Mason's work, charged with a s... .... Learn More -
The Birds of Opulence [Paperback]
Crystal Wilkinson (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813174990
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Kentucky Voices
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucoli... .... Learn More -
Make Way for Her: And Other Stories [Hardback]
Katie Cortese (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780813175126
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanie... .... Learn More -
The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable [Hardback]
Sarah Fielding (Author); Jane Collier (Author); Carolyn Woodward (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9780813174105
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Published in 1754 in five parts and divided into three... .... Learn More -
Robur the Conqueror [Hardback]
Jules; Edited by Evans Verne (Author); Arthur B. Evans (Editor); Alex Kirstukas (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780819577269
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Early Classics of Science Fiction
At the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air... .... Learn More -
Insurrections: Stories [Paperback]
Rion Amilcar Scott (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813174402
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor -- and the Cookie Monster -- for salvation and sanctuary as his life begins to unravel. A man seeking to save his estranged, drug-addicted brother from the city's underbelly confronts his own mortality.... .... Learn More -
Ghosts of Old Louisville: True Stories of Hauntings in America's Largest Victorian Neighborhood [Paperback]
David Domine (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813174525
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, an... .... Learn More -
Phantoms of Old Louisville: Ghostly Tales from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood [Paperback]
David Domine (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813174464
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, an... .... Learn More -
Haunts of Old Louisville: Gilded Age Ghosts and Haunted Mansions in America's Spookiest Neighborhood [Paperback]
David Domine (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813174495
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, an... .... Learn More
