The Only Harmless Great Thing

✍ Brooke Bolander 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Tom Doherty Associates 🌐 English ⚖ 75 KB

_The Only Harmless Great Thing_ is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants. In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation

Some Great Thing

✍ Lawrence Hill 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 HarperCollins Canada 🌐 en-US ⚖ 178 KB

Mahatma Grafton is a disillusioned university graduate burdened with a famous name, and suffering from the curse of his generation -- a total lack of interest in the state of the world. The son of a retired railway porter from Winnipeg, he returns home for a job as a reporter with _The Winnipeg Hera

Some Great Thing

✍ Colin McAdam 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Soho Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 198 KB

In his highly acclaimed debut novel, Colin McAdam depicts the struggle between two men involved in building a city's future: developer Jerry McGuinty, blue collar, selfmade, a master craftsman, and Simon Struthers, a civil servant from a prominent, wealthy background who shapes land-use policy. Jerr

Some Great Thing

✍ Mcadam, Colin 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Soho Press 🌐 en-ca ⚖ 194 KB 👁 1 views

"Ottawa in the seventies is a field of dreams: a developing city, ripe for the taking. Two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer-turned-builder, a simple, self-made man, and Simon Struthers, who has inherited wealth and position, all the trappings of s

Small Great Things

✍ Jodi Picoult 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 346 KB 👁 1 views

**With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, *Small Great Things* is the stunning new page-turner from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult.** **"[Picoult] offers a though

Harmless

✍ Ernie Lindsey 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 CreateSpace 🌐 English ⚖ 167 KB

* * * _**There's someone for everyone...even Steve.** _ _Steve Pendragon is an eccentric (and sometimes delusional) used car salesman in love with Kerry, the quiet, secretive girl next door--only she doesn't know it. When the would-be love of his life turns up dead, all signs point to Steve. _