The classic novelization of one of Broadway’s most enduring and beloved musicals, updated with a beautiful new cover. Maria is young and innocent and has never known love—until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has discovered love for the first time with her, too. But Maria’s brother is the leader of the Sharks and Tony had once led the rival Jets. Now, both gangs are claiming the same turf and with tensions rising to the point of explosion, it seems there is no way to stop a rumble. Tony promised Maria that he would stay out of it. But will he be able to keep his word or will their newfound love be destroyed by violence or even death? Evocative and unforgettable, this novelization brings out all of the depth, drama, and beauty of one of the most enduring stories in the history of American theater.

“I am Sonya Vronsky, professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University, and this is the story of a day in late August. On this remarkable day I kissed a student, pursued a lover, found my father, and left my brother.” So begins A Wall of Light , a novel which chronicles a single day in the life of Sonya, a thirty-two-year-old deaf woman about to break out of her predictable routine. Sonya lives in Tel Aviv with her protective half-brother, Kostya; their household has dwindled from five to two. Anna, their mother, is now in a nursing home and Noah, Kostya’s son, is living in Berlin. Kostya, wracked with guilt for the tragedies that have befallen Sonya, also grapples with the memory of his wife, Iris, a lawyer murdered in the course of a dangerous investigation seventeen years earlier. As we move through Sonya’s day, Noah and Anna narrate their stories as well. Noah’s journal entries cover the years 1980-1993, and Anna’s letters to Andrei, her married lover in Russia, are written in 1957, after Anna has emigrated to Israel to build a new life for herself and her son, Kostya. While Sonya’s story moves rapidly through the events of a single day, Noah and Anna’s voices take the reader back in time, filling in the circumstances that have led Sonya to this pivotal moment. We learn that Sonya has already endured two catastrophes. At age twelve, a medical mishap leaves her deaf, and at eighteen, while studying at university in Beersheba, Sonya is assaulted by two hoodlums. Throughout the novel, Sonya’s experiences, instigated by both human error and human evil, are echoed by the larger, political violence that haunts modern Israel. While Noah’s and Anna’s voices shed light on Sonya’s journey, they also provide insights into the political and cultural fabric of Israel from the mid 1950s to the present. Noah’s journal entries, starting with his tenth birthday and ending shortly after his army service, map his coming of age. We see him wrestling with his sexual identity and first sexual encounters, the fallout from his mother’s leftist politics, and his own conscription to the army. Anna’s secret letters to Andrei offer an outsider’s perspective on the new Israeli state. The remarkable events of Sonya’s day are set in motion when her brother gives her an antihistamine. Overcome with sleepiness, she dismisses her morning class early, asking only one student, Matar, to stay behind. She wants to understand what lies behind his unusual expression. He answers that he has been involved in war crimes, and surprises Sonya by kissing her. Sonya feels that she has been roused from a long slumber and as the novel progresses we see the ways in which her awakened desire shapes her choices. She decides to take a taxi home from the university and impulsively invites the taxi driver inside and seduces him. He complies, but when she tells him she’s deaf, he flees in confusion. Sonya is convinced that she has fallen in love with him, and decides to pursue him. She solicits her brother’s help and sets out to find her lover. Sonya’s search gains in intensity and purpose as she travels to East Jerusalem. There she encounters the walls that prevent Palestinians from moving freely through the West Bank. After an Alice in Wonderland -like journey past numerous obstacles, Sonya finally makes it to her lover’s house. This second encounter leads Sonya to a central revelation: the identity of her father. As this day of awakened desire and dispelled secrets closes, Sonya is able to step out from under the protective wing of her brother into a life that reflects both the ambiguity and uncertainty of contemporary Israel and her own personal possibilities.

Chase has worked many years and has achieved remarkable success in the arena of Country music. He is among the Nashville elite. Pain and misery have been his calling card with each song as he pines for lost love. He outwardly smiles at the world while drowning in sorrow inside. Then one day out of nowhere, she appears and shakes up his world as he could never have imagined. Nina has been away from Nashville for fifteen years. She's wanted to come home since the day she left, but circumstances were never just right. Now she's back and hoping to rekindle what she has lost, but first, she must atone for her sins. If he were anything short of a superstar, things would be more comfortable, but his status complicates matters. The news she brings could topple his career, and she isn't sure he will be willing to accept that.

From David Adjmi the virtuosic playwright dubbed one of the "best and most original theatre artists of a generation" by Vogue come a wholly original one-woman show. Elective Affinities takes the audience into the apartment of Alice a witty octogenarian offering a funny and savage portrait of cultured life promising to initiate a vital discourse about what it means to be civilized.

With the war over, it was time to look forward, and the Festival of Britain symbolised a new optimism. Poppy's catering business was proving very successful as rationing and shortages ended. For Chloe life was bitter; a marriage in ruins and a baby rejected, the baby a new burden and a new joy for Poppy.

Sister Barbara is bitterly disappointed to leave London's busy Royal Hospital for health reasons, and feels life will be dull at the little cottage hospital on the South Coast, but it turns out to be engrossing work - and romantically challenging.

Summer can give an unexpected turn to a romance--or a marriage. "Ann Birstein knows that summer is the middle class' Saturday Night." Jose Yglesias "Everyone, men included, will like Birstein's book... her world is so contemporary, her observations so altogether accurate." Diane Johnson, Book World . . . in her sharp and witty portraits of three deluded women, her touch is as deft and light as it is revealing." Publisher's Weekly Probably you have seen Mia Farrow reading this book in the movie, Hannah and Her Sisters .

When a body turns up drowned in the quiet English village of Ashwyck, reporter Bob Rudgely's attempt to identify the man leads him to discover more about the sleepy village than he ever imagined. As the case unfolds, Bob's loving relationship with art teacher Sandie White seems to unravel in almost parallel proportions. It looks as if Sandie will even turn to the other man who's in love with her -- golf pro Bill Wells -- for consolation as Bob becomes more and more absorbed in the mystery of Ashwyck.

This book is for all who have experienced love and yearning in their lives, who are able to smile through tears and conceal the sufferings of their souls behind that laughter. Yearning for Paradise follows the hero who finds his lost love and together they begin the path of return to the Garden of Paradise and at-one-ment with the once forsaken Lord. From medieval to modern times, from Mexico and Moscow to Mississippi, this magical mystery tour defies the boundaries of time and space. Mikhail Morgulis shows us how in our search to be reunited with the Father that love can conquer all. Yet it is we who must make that effort to do good and battle evil in this life. For the novel reminds us of the words of John F. Kennedy: "asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth, God's work must truly be our own."

If you like period pieces and murder-mysteries with a twist of romance, you will enjoy this book. The protagonist becomes the chief suspect in the murder of Sir Geoffrey Kynaston and must clear his name. Set in Victorian England, there are flashbacks to Italy. Filled with aristocrats, there are colorful characters, too, lending an air of the Dickensian comic relief, ― like the money-obsessed private sleuth. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an enormously popular and prolific writer of suspense fiction and romance. Notably easy to read, Mr. Oppenheim has few equals among modern English novelists. He is untiring in the invention of mysterious plots, he is a clever weaver of the plausible with the sensational, and he has the necessary gift of facile narrative. (Boston Transcript.) He is a master of the art of telling a story. He has humor, a keen sense of the dramatic, and a knack of turning out a happy ending just when the complications of the plot threaten worse disasters. (New York Times.)

The Twelfth Hour (1907) is a novel by Ada Leverson. Having established herself as a journalist and short story writer, Leverson published her debut novel to moderate acclaim. Entertaining and effortlessly witty, Leverson's prose paints a stunning portrait of the Edwardian era, a time when hope and relative peace proved prosperous for many. Often compared to her close friend Oscar Wilde, Leverson, a pioneering Jewish woman, remains a unique and refreshing voice in English literature. Felicity, Sylvia, and Savile Crofton all feel the pressure placed on upper-class youths to marry wisely. At 25, Felicity appears to have found herself a good husband, a man of wealth and social standing who on closer appearance seems more interested in leisure than love. Determined not to fall into a similarly unhappy marriage, her 20-year-old sister Sylvia hopes to thwart her father's wish that she marry millionaire Mr. Ridokanski. Although he is only 16, Eton student Savile is deeply in love with a famous opera singer--from a distance--but also feels obliged to entertain the affections of Dolly Clive, a girl his own age. Finding company in their own unique miseries of the heart, the Crofton siblings hatch a plan to achieve happiness for themselves, satisfaction for their father, and whatever it is young people are meant to owe to society. The Twelfth Hour is a humorous tale of romance and desire from Ada Leverson, an underappreciated novelist of the Edwardian era. This edition of Ada Leverson's The Twelfth Hour is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

From the author who brought you Spin Cycle and Neurotica comes a hilarious new novel about falling in love, hating your job, and getting what you want out of life---without ever mussing your lipstick! When it comes to men, beauty columnist Rebecca Fine always seems to be on the scruffy end of the mascara wand. But all that changes the morning she meets Max Stoddart, her new colleague at the "Daily Vanguard. With his upscale suit, Hugh Grant hair, and obscenely sexy good looks, he's a single woman's dream come true. Finally, her grandmother can stop surfing the Net for eligible Jewish males. But is Max the catch of the decade---or just a major babe magnet? Meanwhile, Rebecca's old high school nemesis has resurfaced, a former blond bombshell called Lipstick who is now engaged to Rebecca's widowed dad. And it's good-bye to articles on toe cleavage when a hot tip sweeps Rebecca to the center of the Paris cosmetics world, where a miracle anti-wrinkle cream is about to be launched. That is, until she blows the whistle on a scandal that could set the beauty business---and the future of world peace---reeling. Will Rebecca win the recognition---not to mention the Pulitzer---she yearns for...and get the man of her dreams? Stay tuned. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Emma is sixteen years old and in love with Andrew, but he's engaged to Julie, Emma's beautiful elder sister. When their two families go to France on holiday together Emma is perturbed by Julie's casual attitude to the engagement and her interest in Yves Courtelle, another guest at the hotel. Emotions become hopelessly entangled, and for the four young people, the holiday threatens to end in tragedy as they struggle with feelings which are stronger than they are.

When her first marriage had gone on the rocks, Miranda had sworn to herself it would never happen again. She and David had been so young, so unfitted to the monumental task of marriage and parenthood, that when their baby died so had the marriage. Now after six years of her second marriage with John, she is again standing at the crossroads....

Married to William Harrington, a drunken degenerate, Ann's life had been threadbare and colourless. So she leaves him. But surely life has more to offer her than the Yorkshire family business she runs so efficiently. Then she met Wilford. Can this be high noon of Ann's happiness?

__________________________________ The fabulously addictive new novel from Katie Price! Beautiful people and big personalities is the formula for great reality TV, as high-flying producer Jas knows all too well. But these days most of the drama in Jas’s life seems to be happening off screen rather than on it. From dealing with daily family conflicts to getting her ex Richard to accept that she’s just not taking him back…Jas needs a break from her own reality. Enter Mr Right – a TV show with a winning formula – which Jas has been tasked with producing. What better place to escape her own personal drama than in a lavish villa in the hills of Ibiza? But with twelve gorgeous contestants competing for the love of one perfect man, there is bound to be trouble in paradise. It's Jas's job to see through the secrets, the backstabbing and lies – and there's no shortage of any of it...

20-year-old Liberty is beautiful, ambitious and dreams of making it as an actress. She is also a single mother and has a three-year old daughter, Brooke. Living with her mother, she supports her daughter by modelling and working as a waitress. Then, over one perfect summer, Liberty meets and falls in love with Cory, a young American taking time off from university. But Liberty never feels good enough for him, and when she meets his university friends, she feels it's only fair to let him go. Heartbroken, Cory leaves to go back to the States. Liberty, meanwhile, suddenly gets the break she's been praying for.