Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: palace, ice
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419167006
ISBN-13: 9781419167003
She rose at six and sliding uncomfortably into her clothes stumbled up to the diner for a cup of coffee. The snow had filtered into the vestibules and covered the floor with a slippery coating. It was intriguing, this cold, it crept in everywhere. Her breath was quite visible and she blew into the air with a nave enjoyment. Seated in the diner she stared out the window at white hills and valleys and scattered pines whose every branch was a green platter for a cold feast of snow.
Author: Ismail Kadare
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: dreams, palace
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-02-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1559704160
ISBN-13: 9781559704168
A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, and interpret the dreams of the people in the empire, seeking the ""master-dreams"" that give clues to the empire’s destiny. 10,000 first printing.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: palace, bingo
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-02-15
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 006092585X
ISBN-13: 9780060925857
At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandfather on the reservation. There he comes to terms with his heritage, his future, and his first true love in this novel of spiritual death, lyrical prose, and wild hope: the latest and most luminous work in the series begun with Love Medicine.
Author: James Lear
Publisher: Cleis Press
Keywords: varieties, palace
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-04-28
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 157344314X
ISBN-13: 9781573443142
This extremely graphic novel brims with male sex from the sordid to the sublime, in every position, place, and variety. Watch and enjoy as Paul Lemoyne leaves his humble home to begin a new life as a music hall stagehand, but soon discovers there are richer pickings to be had from the stage-door johnnies who haunt the Palace of Varieties Music Hall. And thus ensues our rake’s progress from low-life prostitution to the salons and studios of Mayfair, from the bath-houses of Bermondsey to the rarefied circles of modern art. All the while behind each of Paul’s outrageous sexual adventu
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Keywords: palace, flea
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0714531200
ISBN-13: 9780714531205
Keen irony and humour amongst the cats and tomb thieves of Istanbul The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul built by Russian noble émigré Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign, now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten families. Shafak uses the narrative structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story-within-a-story narrative. Inhabitants include Ethel, a lapsed Jew in search of true love and the sad and beautiful Blue Mistress whose personal secret provides the novel with an unforgettable denouement. Add to thi
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: palace
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0446610992
ISBN-13: 9780446610995
The anticipated paperback release of the second title in Yarbro’s long-running Saint-Germain series featuring immortal vampire Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano. Secluded in his Renaissance Florence palace, he falls for a beautiful courtesan and loses all desire for isolation.
Author: Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, palace
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060956534
ISBN-13: 9780060956530
One of today’s most imaginative and lyrical writers, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran weaves together passion, idealism, and adventures in this mesmerizing fable set against the ornate backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy. The palace is the vision of Gabriele del Campo, a young, idealistic stonemason’s apprentice imprisoned for supporting Garibaldi’s revolutionary unification of Italy. A poor peasant, he has falen in love at first sight with the rich and beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella. He yearns to be pulled out of poverty, and dreams of winning Donatellaa’s heart and buil
