Shelter in place : a novel —Leavitt, David, 1961- author.

It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political ...

23 great stories

The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer —Leavitt, David, 1961- author.

A biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code du...

Maurice —Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970, author.

The Indian clerk : a novel —Leavitt, David, 1961-

A story of ambition, friendship, war and mathematics, set in the period of World War I. An esteemed English mathematician receives a collection of remarkable equations from a young man in India and invites him to come to...

While England sleeps —Leavitt, David, 1961-

The lost language of cranes

Confronted with his son's confession that he is gay, Owen realizes that he can no longer live a lie. Although he still loves his wife Rose, he abandons the safe world of the heterosexual for the difficult but rewarding j...

The two Hotel Francforts : a novel —Leavitt, David, 1961-

"It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe--a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until the...

A Room with a View —Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970, author.

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English ...

Le langage perdu des grues roman —Leavitt, David, 1961-

Philip, un jeune New-Yorkais, décide de révéler son homosexualité à ses parents. Il n'imagine pas toutes les conséquences de son aveu. Le père de Philip lutte lui-même depuis des années contre ses propres tendan...

Equal affections a novel —Leavitt, David, 1961-

Family matriarch Louise Cooper, mother of gay siblings April and Danny, suffers one malady after another while Nat, her husband, enjoys a long-term affair. As Louise's condition deteriorates, tensions mount and family me...

Equal affections a novel —Leavitt, David, 1961-

Family matriarch Louise Cooper, mother of gay siblings April and Danny, suffers one malady after another while Nat, her husband, enjoys a long-term affair. As Louise's condition deteriorates, tensions mount and family me...

Equal affections a novel —Leavitt, David, 1961-

Family matriarch Louise Cooper, mother of gay siblings April and Danny, suffers one malady after another while Nat, her husband, enjoys a long-term affair. As Louise's condition deteriorates, tensions mount and family me...

Le langage perdu des grues roman —Leavitt, David, 1961-

Philip, un jeune New-Yorkais, décide de révéler son homosexualité à ses parents. Il n'imagine pas toutes les conséquences de son aveu. Le père de Philip lutte lui-même depuis des années contre ses propres tendan...

Florence, a Delicate Case —Leavitt, David, 1961-

This account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily' begins by asking why Florence has always proven to be such a popular destination for suicides, then moves into an analysis of what makes the city, in Henry James'...

Tendresses partagées —Leavitt, David, 1961-

Dans une famille juive de petits bourgeois californiens une mère annonce à ses enfants - un fils homosexuel amateur de messageries roses, et une fille lesbienne, féministe radicale - qu'elle est atteinte du cancer. 19...