Carol Janeway
1) Summer lies
Author
Language
English
Description
An anthology of seven provocative tales explores the impact of truthfulness and lies on human emotions and includes "After the Season," "Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen," and "The Night in Baden-Baden."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Alexander von Humboldt journeys to unexplored regions of the planet, and Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age.
3) The reader
Author
Language
English
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
"A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old
4) Embers
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
5) The storm
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
x, 257 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down on the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecing the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years. The author interweaves the stories of two sister, deftly alternating between the cataclysm and the long years of its grief-strewn...