Bruce Kellner: Winter Ridge.
A Love Story

Approaching old age, Silas Harmon closes his San Francisco bookshop to retire to the summer cottage in Kentucky where he spent his youth. There he encounters - for the first time in fifty-five years - the lonely Polish refugee with whom he had a love affair when he was sixteen and she was thirty-two...

Carl Van Vechten: Firecrackers.
A Realistic Novel

The Fathers of the Prix Goncourt with their most famous naturalistic novel, based in Paris.

Donald Windham: Two People (Gay Classic Novel) December 7, 2008!!
A love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian. First published in 1965, when the word "gay" in its sexual implications was little used or even recognized by heterosexuals, Two People anticipated many novels about same-sex relationships that followed.

Gertrud Stein: Three Lives

"Three Lives" is an astonishing masterpiece when one considers that it was its author's first book.
With an Introduction by Carl Van Vechten.

Sinclair Lewis: The Trail of the Hawk
The Trail of the Hawk, by Sinclair Lewis, is the chronicle of an inveterate Rolling Stone… Carl Ericson, a born rebel against conventions, finds himself from boyhood up at war with the combined forces of family, school and society, all three of which unite in trying to mould him into the average colourless human being.

Jack London:

The Iron Heel is interesting as an example of a "dystopian" novel which anticipates and
influenced George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Jack London's (1876-1916) socialist politics are explicitly on display here.

Jack London: Burning Daylight
London's bestselling work during his lifetime begins as the hero--nicknamed Burning Daylight--becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story ends with the moral of how a good woman can turn a bad man around.

Jack London: Before Adam. Children of the Frost.

His adventure stories of Alaska and the
Pacific continue to fascinate new generations of readers. In Before Adam, the protagonist relives, in his dreams, the pre-stoneage life of one of his proto-human ancestors. Children of the Frost is a collection of stories set in the frozen wastes of the Yukon during the "Gold Rush".

Jack London: Burning Daylight.

London's bestselling work during his lifetime begins as the hero--nicknamed Burning Daylight--becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story ends with the moral of how a good woman can turn a bad man around...

Diane Stingley: Say What??! Highlights of the Glory Days of the First George W. Bush Administration
A novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism.

James Baldwin: Fifty Famous People
James Baldwin (1841-1925) was a school superintendent in Indiana who became a
book editor for Harper and Brothers and then for the American Book Company.
A prolific author of books for youth.

Susan Coolidge: Clover
"Clover", first published in 1888, is the fourth book of the popular family series "Katy", for adolescent and adult readers alike.