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Yuri Trifonov
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...The most sensitive and honest of the officially published Soviet fiction writers...some of Chekhov's tenderness and masterly power of indirect revelation.--John Updike, The New Yorker Learn More
Young Irelanders (Paperback)
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From the acclaimed author of Julius Winsome, a stunning collection of stories about life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Learn More
Young Irelanders
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From the acclaimed author of Julius Winsome, a stunning collection of stories about the not-always-green Emerald Isle Learn More
Young Henry of Navarre
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This classic novel by one of Germany's greatest literary figures, first published in 1937, interweaves historical facts with richly drawn fictional characters. Learn More
The Yellow Emperor's Cure
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The richly woven, page-turning story of family ties, impossible love, and being a foreigner in a dangerous land
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Year of the Horse
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A thrill-ride adventure novel that captures the adventure, mystery, legend, and lore of America. Learn More
Y2K
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A new play by the award-winning playwright that explores the implications of communication in the age of the computer. Learn More
Worlds Apart (Paperback)
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From folk tales to Sputnik, the Russian imagination in all its splendor and diversity is brought out in all-new translations of influential fantasy and science fiction works Learn More
Worlds Apart
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From folk tales to Sputnik, the Russian imagination in all its splendor and diversity is brought out in all-new translations of influential fantasy and science fiction works Learn More
The Wooden Horse (Paperback)
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The internationally recognized magisterial history that traces the development of the Western mind to its origins in Ancient Greek literature Learn More
The Wooden Horse
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The internationally recognized magisterial history that traces the development of the Western mind to its origins in Ancient Greek literature Learn More
Wonder of the World
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The brilliantly twisted triumph of black comedy that wowed New York audiences and had them thinking of Barbie dolls in a whole new light Learn More
The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
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A stylish novelistic solution to the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Learn More
The Wit and Wisdom of Freddy and His Friends
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Finally! The quintessence of Freddy the Pig s wisdom (and more than a bit from his barnyard of friends too) in one marvelous completely new volume of fabulous Freddyness. Learn More
Wishing My Father Well: (Paperback)
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A memoir of three generations of fathers and sons who connect through fly-fishing. Learn More
Wishing My Father Well:
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A memoir of three generations of fathers and sons who connect through fly-fishing. Learn More
Windward Passage
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From the writer whose work has been called "truly, hellishly gritty" (Los Angeles Times) comes a gnarled mystery with shades of Philip K. Dick and James Ellroy Learn More
Windfall (Paperback)
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Sensible Cassia Fallon is married to a doctor for seven years when she inherits a large amount of money from her godmother. Learn More
Windfall
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A glamorous, engrossing, and vivid look at money and power, from "the doyenne of the modern blockbuster" (Glamour). Learn More
Wilson:
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The brilliantly challenging novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. Learn More
Will (Paperback)
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The story of the Bard writing his will -- a "bonanza" (Independent) for Shakespeare fans. Learn More
Will
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"A bonanza" (The Independent) for Shakespeare fans and a future feature film starring Sir Ben Kingsley Learn More
Wild Women
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Introduction by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph D. Forty-seven short stories by women celebrating women. Learn More
A Wild Ride through the Night
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A beloved novelist's tribute to a world famous illustrator, complete with twenty-one woodcuts Learn More
Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
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Ken Babbs, famously a Merry Prankster and the best friend and working partner of Ken Kesey has at last finished his first novel and the wait was worth it.
Lieutenant Tom Huckelbee, "leathery as any Mexican come crawling out of the sage," and Lieutenant Mike Cochran, son of a "loquacious Ohio gangster," make an unlikely pair of Marine Corps officers training to be helicopter pilots who soon find themselves in the middle of a disorienting war.
Tough and comical, quiet and boisterous, and always vivid and poetic, Babbs is a writer at the top of his craft. Who Killed the Water Buffalo? manages to imbue the world in all its guts and glory through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another—a book not to be missed.
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Lieutenant Tom Huckelbee, "leathery as any Mexican come crawling out of the sage," and Lieutenant Mike Cochran, son of a "loquacious Ohio gangster," make an unlikely pair of Marine Corps officers training to be helicopter pilots who soon find themselves in the middle of a disorienting war.
Tough and comical, quiet and boisterous, and always vivid and poetic, Babbs is a writer at the top of his craft. Who Killed the Water Buffalo? manages to imbue the world in all its guts and glory through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another—a book not to be missed.
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The White Rock (Paperback)
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One man's journey through the lost cities of the Andes woven together with the history of the rise and subsequent annihilation of the Incas. Learn More
The White Rock
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One man's journey through the lost cities of the Andes woven together with the history of the rise and subsequent annihilation of the Incas. Learn More
The White Mare (Paperback)
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A sweeping historical fantasy epic of Celtic magic and a fight for freedom from an exciting new talent. Learn More
The White Mare
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A sweeping historical fantasy epic of Celtic magic and a fight for freedom from an exciting new talent. Learn More
Where the Rainbow Ends (Paperback)
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A novel about a gay man who settles in New York City in 1978 and his circle of friends. Learn More
When You Lunch with the Emperor (Paperback)
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Another addictive and enchanting collection of essays about the grand hotel life--by the author of Hotel Bemelmans and the Madeline books.
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When You Lunch with the Emperor
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Another addictive and enchanting collection of essays about the grand hotel life--by the author of Hotel Bemelmans and the Madeline books.
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When I Was Five I Killed Myself
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A novel that explores the chasm between childhood and adulthood from the perspective of an eight-year-old boy. Learn More
When Autumn Leaves
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From the popular multi-million selling songwriter-to-the-stars, a funny, touching, and truly magical tale about finding yourself. Learn More
Weymouth Sands (Paperback)
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A modern classic of psychological insight and humanity. Learn More
The Wentworths (Paperback)
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"Entirely original, dizzyingly controlled, all ice-cool momentum on the surface and all shock below" Joan Didion Learn More
The Wentworths
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"Entirely original, dizzyingly controlled, all ice-cool momentum on the surface and all shock below" Joan Didion Learn More
The Warsaw Anagrams
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Warsaw, 1941--an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben— can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur—a spirit. But how and why has he taken this form?
As Cohen recounts his disturbing and moving story, small but telling inconsistencies appear in his narrative. Heniek begins to believe that Cohen is not the secular Jew he claims to be, but may, in fact, be a student of practical Kabbalah—of magic. Why is he lying? And what is the importance of the anagrams he creates for the names of his friends and relatives? Heniek traces his suspicions and comes to an astonishing conclusion—one that has consequences for his own identity and life, and perhaps for the reader’s as well.
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As Cohen recounts his disturbing and moving story, small but telling inconsistencies appear in his narrative. Heniek begins to believe that Cohen is not the secular Jew he claims to be, but may, in fact, be a student of practical Kabbalah—of magic. Why is he lying? And what is the importance of the anagrams he creates for the names of his friends and relatives? Heniek traces his suspicions and comes to an astonishing conclusion—one that has consequences for his own identity and life, and perhaps for the reader’s as well.
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The Warsaw Anagrams
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The "riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring, and intelligent" (San Francisco Chronicle) historical thriller by the bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon. Learn More
The Warrior Prophet (Paperback)
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The startlingly original, enthusiastically acclaimed Prince of Nothing fantasy series continues with a gripping novel of Holy War and court intrigue. Learn More
The Warrior Prophet
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The startlingly original, enthusiastically acclaimed Prince of Nothing fantasy series continues with a gripping novel of Holy War and court intrigue. Learn More
The Walking Dead
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The thriller master is back with a provocative take on the very nature of terrorism Learn More
The Voyage of the Short Serpent (Paperback)
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A novel of untamed murder, sex, and Christianity in the frozen landscapes and treacherous waters of Iceland a French prize-winner Learn More
The Voyage of the Short Serpent
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A novel of untamed murder, sex, and Christianity in the frozen landscapes and treacherous waters of Iceland a French prize-winner Learn More
The Voyage Home (Paperback)
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By the prize-winning author of Island, a powerful new novel confronting the vagaries of past and present, and the repercussions of action and of inaction. Learn More
The Voyage Home
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By the prize-winning author of Island, a powerful new novel confronting the vagaries of past and present, and the repercussions of action and of inaction. Learn More
The Vows of Silence (Paperback)
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Hill’s readers met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors.
A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What—if anything— links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?
With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
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A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What—if anything— links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?
With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
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Viva La Madness
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Connolly is back with a sequel that sees him on the same stunning form, with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue and quick-fire violence, but also finding dark humor and pathos in the lives of violent men. Learn More
The Visiting Professor
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Robert Littell s most original novel a delicious thriller, an offbeat love story . . . and a debonair glance at post-Cold War relations (Literary Review) Learn More
Vicious Circle
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The author of The Company returns with a blockbusting new thriller that interrogates the brutal psychology of a conflict that has defined our age. Learn More
The Very Rich Hours of Count Von Stauffenberg (Paperback)
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A novelistic picture of Hitler's would-be assassin. Learn More
The Very Rich Hours of Count Von Stauffenberg
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A novelistic picture of Hitler's would-be assassin. Learn More
Vermeer's Milkmaid
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Sixteen heart-stopping short stories from the master of modern Spanish literature Learn More
Venus Preserved (Paperback)
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The realms of myth, religion, and cutting-edge cyber-technology fused into a thrilling and darkly suspenseful novel from a renowned fantasy master. Learn More
Venus Preserved
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The realms of myth, religion, and cutting-edge cyber-technology fused into a thrilling and darkly suspenseful novel from a renowned fantasy master. Learn More
The Various Haunts of Men (Paperback)
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A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill , an area locally known for its tranquility and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear, no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Learn More
The Various Haunts of Men
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A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill , an area locally known for its tranquility and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear, no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Learn More
The Unreasoning Mask
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Philip Jos Farmer, the wildly creative author of the bestselling Riverworld series, has long been considered one of the few real masters of science fiction. All the skills and the soaring imagination which have won Farmer over a million dedicated fans are abundant in this highly charged, far-future, space adventure story. Learn More
The Unknown Soldier (Paperback)
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Intelligence agents must stop the world s most lethal terrorist from reuniting with his family Al Quaeda in this thrillingly suspenseful novel from one of the world s masters of espionage fiction Seymour may be the best spy novelist ever. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Learn More
The Unknown Soldier
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Intelligence agents must stop the world s most lethal terrorist from reuniting with his family Al Quaeda in this thrillingly suspenseful novel from one of the world s masters of espionage fiction Seymour may be the best spy novelist ever. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Learn More
The Universe and Other Fictions (Paperback)
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Wildly imaginative stories of cosmic proportions. Learn More
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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"As his dazzling career continues to demonstrate, Mr. Coover is a one-man Big Bang of exploding creative force." --The New York Times
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Uncle Peretz Takes Off (Paperback)
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A spectacular collection of stories portraying Israelis on the brink of independence, from one of Hebrew literature s most esteemed authors. Learn More
Uncle Peretz Takes Off
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A spectacular collection of stories portraying Israelis on the brink of independence, from one of Hebrew literature s most esteemed authors. Learn More
Ultramarine
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Malcolm Lowry's first novel is finally back in print, "The romantic, highly charged account of a young man's initiation into life" (The New York Times). Learn More
Twentysomething
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Twenty-five is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but Jack Lancaster is going to make a go of it anyway, and give it his best shot. Learn More
True Grit
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An epic and a legend (The Washington Post) from one of the most beloved Southern writers of his generation reissued with a new package and afterword Learn More
True Grit
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Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for the movie starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon.
True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.
About the Author
Charles Portis lives in Arkansas where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, for which he also wrote as a reporter. He is the author of Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, Gringos, and Norwood.
True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.
About the Author
Charles Portis lives in Arkansas where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, for which he also wrote as a reporter. He is the author of Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, Gringos, and Norwood.
Praise for Charles Portis and True Grit
“A generation of novelists have simply called him a writers’ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they’ll no longer have him to themselves.”—Rolling Stone
“A wonderful book.... That’s really what the Coens are referencing, and that’s what I’m doing as well”—Jeff Bridges
“I think [the book is] much funnier than the [the
original] movie.” —Ethan Coen
“The Coen brothers told Bridges they didn’t want him to think about the Wayne movie, and instead draw inspiration from the Charles Portis novel”—USA Today
“The Coens have gone back to the source for
True Grit and that is the wonderful book Charles Portis wrote. Most of the dialogue is culled straight from the book.”—Matt Damon
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“A generation of novelists have simply called him a writers’ writer and have made his name a sort of secret password. Soon, they’ll no longer have him to themselves.”—Rolling Stone
“A wonderful book.... That’s really what the Coens are referencing, and that’s what I’m doing as well”—Jeff Bridges
“I think [the book is] much funnier than the [the
original] movie.” —Ethan Coen
“The Coen brothers told Bridges they didn’t want him to think about the Wayne movie, and instead draw inspiration from the Charles Portis novel”—USA Today
“The Coens have gone back to the source for
True Grit and that is the wonderful book Charles Portis wrote. Most of the dialogue is culled straight from the book.”—Matt Damon
True Grit
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Triomf (Paperback)
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The novel acclaimed internationally for its black humor and insight into South Africa on the brink of revolutionary change. Learn More
Triomf
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The novel acclaimed internationally for its black humor and insight into South Africa on the brink of revolutionary change. Learn More
Traveler's Calendar
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A new collection from the award-winning poet who Richard Wilbur hailed for his "artful openness." Learn More
A Traitor's Kiss (Paperback)
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Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on . . . Learn More
A Traitor's Kiss
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Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on . . . Learn More
Top of My Lungs (Paperback)
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"Natalie Goldberg's writing offers a path, a highway, to that elusive place deep within our own lives where divinity sits." Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul Learn More
Top of My Lungs
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"Natalie Goldberg's writing offers a path, a highway, to that elusive place deep within our own lives where divinity sits." Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul Learn More
Tokyo Tango
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The wild story of a love affair between a schoolgirl and a gambler, set against the boom and bust of the Japanese economy Learn More
To the Hermitage (Paperback)
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A work of dazzling intellect and playful hilarity from renowned novelist and critic. Learn More
To the Hermitage
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A work of dazzling intellect and playful hilarity from renowned novelist and critic. Learn More
Titus Awakes
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Fans of Peake will delight in this new, wonderful tale, published one hundred years after Peake’s birth Learn More
Three Novellas
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Joseph Roth was born in 1894, in a small Galician town on the eastern borders if the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind him thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.
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The Thousandfold Thought (Paperback)
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The conclusion to the groundbreaking epic Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy Learn More
The Thousandfold Thought
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The conclusion to the groundbreaking epic Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy Learn More
The Life and Times of Homer Sincere Whose Amazing Adventures are Documented by His True and Trusted Friend Rigby Canfield
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A hilarious and endearing novel about making a family from the people who cross your path... Learn More
The Adventures of Sally
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Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published Learn More
The Tears of Autumn (Paperback)
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The novel that established Charles McCarry's international reputation as a storyteller who surpasses Len Deighton and John le Carr . . . his novels have a multidimensional quality, a deep sensitivity, and a verisimilitude that tells you the author knows what he s talking about." Washington Post Learn More
The Tears of Autumn
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The novel that established Charles McCarry's international reputation as a storyteller who surpasses Len Deighton and John le Carr . . . his novels have a multidimensional quality, a deep sensitivity, and a verisimilitude that tells you the author knows what he s talking about." Washington Post Learn More
Tales from the Mabinogion (Paperback)
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Back in print--the lauded contemporary translation of the masterpiece of Celtic storytelling, gloriously illustrated in full color and accessible to readers of all ages. Learn More
Tales from the Mabinogion
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Back in print--the lauded contemporary translation of the masterpiece of Celtic storytelling, gloriously illustrated in full color and accessible to readers of all ages. Learn More
Sweet Smell of Success
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The novellas Sweet Smell of Success and The Comedian and thirteen short stories by the famous screenwriter. Learn More
The Sunday Books
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Decades after Peake’s death, world-renowned fantasy writer (and friend of the Peakes) Michael Moorcock has written verses to go with Peake’s drawings. This star collaboration--funny, surprising, and haunting by turns--is accompanied by an illuminating and elegiac introduction by Moorcock. Learn More
The Stream
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The prize-winning novel hailed as a second Silent Spring , about the life and death of a stream. Learn More
The Stranger's Woes
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Part fantasy, part horror, part philosophy, part contemporary dark comedy, the writing is united by a sharp wit and a web of clues that will open up the imagination of every reader.< Learn More
The Stranger's Woes
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The irresistible second novel by the bestselling Max Frei, set in a magical city where losers make good. Learn More
The Stranger
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The millions-selling fantasy epic of the new Russian literary icon a freeloading freebooter who finds a new home in a magical world. Learn More
Strait Is the Gate
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The first novel of one of the twentieth century s most acclaimed voices a tragedy of passion and renunciation. Learn More
The Story of Freginald
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Freginald sets off to find other unusual animal acts for the circus. Learn More
The Stones of Summer
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The cult classic novel the award-winning documentary Stone Reader brought to light back in print after more than thirty years. Learn More
The Stonehenge Legacy
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A dazzling action adventure about an ancient cult, still very much alive . . . Learn More
The Stonehenge Legacy
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"A non-stop delight of a read complete with history, secrets, conspiracies, and adventure." (Steve Berry, author of The Amber Room) Learn More
Stone Heart (Paperback)
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The drama and wonder of the Lewis and Clark expedition recaptured through the voice of Sacajawea, the enigmatic Shoshoni woman who accompanied them through the West. Learn More
Stone Heart
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The drama and wonder of the Lewis and Clark expedition recaptured through the voice of Sacajawea, the enigmatic Shoshoni woman who accompanied them through the West. Learn More
Starting from Sleep
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"One of the finest younger poets of our time." Dick Allen, Hudson Review Learn More
Sporting with Amaryllis
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A stunning new novel based on the life and sexual obsessions of John Milton. Learn More
The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father (Paperback)
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Two visionary novellas of Europe between the wars.
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The Sorrow of Belgium
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The Sorrow of Belgium is a searing, scathingly funny portrait of a wartime Belgium and one boy's coming of age-emotionally, sexually, and politically. Learn More
Something Dangerous (Paperback)
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Continues the deliciously entertaining saga of the Lytton family that began with the acclaimed No Angel, international bestselling author Penny Vincenzi gives readers the next installment as Celia Lytton's stunning twin daughters take the stage.
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Something Dangerous
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Continues the deliciously entertaining saga of the Lytton family that began with the acclaimed No Angel, international bestselling author Penny Vincenzi gives readers the next installment as Celia Lytton's stunning twin daughters take the stage. Learn More
A Slice of Life (Paperback)
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A hearty and very international collection of twentieth-century food writing that illustrates the traditions and beliefs that revolve around eating, drinking, and writing.
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A Slice of Life
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A hearty and very international collection of twentieth-century food writing that illustrates the traditions and beliefs that revolve around eating, drinking, and writing. Learn More
Slaves of the Shinar
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Part Genesis, part Gilgamesh, this artfully wrought first novel is a triumph of the historical fantasy genre. Learn More
Sister Teresa (Paperback)
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The author of Frida brings to life one of the Hispanic world's most important figures in this epic novel of passion and faith.
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Sister Teresa
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The author of Frida brings to life one of the Hispanic world's most important figures in this epic novel of passion and faith. Learn More
A Simple Act of Violence
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In the tradition of the masters of suspense, R.J. Ellory has written a shocking and tense narrative of politics and violence in the nerve center of America. Learn More
A Simple Act of Violence
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The award-winning CIA thriller by "a uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer" (Alan Furst).
R. J. Ellory's latest paperback is his most timely, menacing serial killer novel yet, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Learn More
R. J. Ellory's latest paperback is his most timely, menacing serial killer novel yet, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Learn More
Sima's Undergarments for Women
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In a hidden bra shop in Brooklyn, one woman's fifty-year-old secret comes unhooked Learn More
Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man
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Novel of intrigue set in Thailand at the onset of the Vietnam War. Learn More
The Short Life and Happy Times of Shmoo
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The Shmoos are cute, lovable, and incredibly prolific: they are mankind's greatest boon, and its greatest curse-and they captured the hearts and imagination of the entire nation when Al Capp introduced them in his Lil' Abner comic strip. Learn More
Shelley's Heart (Paperback)
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The first presidential election of the twenty-first century, bitterly contested by two men who are implacable political rivals but lifelong personal friends, is stolen through computer fraud. On the eve of the Inauguration the losing candidate presents proof of the crime to his opponent, the incumbent President, and demands that he stand aside. The winner refuses and takes the oath of office, thereby setting in motion what may destroy him and his party, and even bring down the Constitution.
From this crisis, master storyteller Charles McCarry, author of such classic thrillers as The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper weaves a masterpiece of political intrigue. Shelley’s Heart is so gripping in its realism and so striking in its foresight that McCarry’s devoted readers may view this tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggles for the political soul of America as an act of prophecy.
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From this crisis, master storyteller Charles McCarry, author of such classic thrillers as The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper weaves a masterpiece of political intrigue. Shelley’s Heart is so gripping in its realism and so striking in its foresight that McCarry’s devoted readers may view this tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggles for the political soul of America as an act of prophecy.
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Shelley's Heart
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A tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggle set on the eve of the Presidential inauguration, from the master of political intrigue Learn More
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
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Before Sex and the City, before Bridget Jones, there was the prototypical big city girl as singleton, our very own Sheila Levine Learn More
Shakespeare's Sonnets
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A new and accessible presentation of Shakespeare's sublime lyrics with a new commentary for the contemporary reader.
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The Shakespeare Miscellany
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In the best tradition of sound-bites and pithily entertaining witticism, David and Ben Crystal's The Shakespeare Miscellany gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights about William Shakespeare--probably the most famous writer of all time--and the world in which he lived and worked.
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The Shadows in the Street
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The fifth book in the Simon Serrailler series. Learn More
The Shadows in the Street
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The fifth book in the Simon Serrailler series. Learn More
Selected Poems of C. N. Bialik
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A selection of C.N. Bialik's poetry in dramatic new English translations, alongside the original Hebrew. Learn More
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Translated by Bollingen Prize winner Walter Arndt, Pushkin Threefold is the acclaimed edition of Pushkin’s poems that includes three versions of each poem--the original Russian, a close translation into English, and a poetic verse translation reproducing as faithfully as possible the form, spirit, and flavor of the original. This indispensable volume contains 74 shorter poems; “Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters”; “The Bridegroom”; “Count Nulin”; “Tsar Saltan”; “The Bronze Horseman”; and 22 stanzas from Eugene Onegin. Learn More
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Katie Aronldi’s debut Chemical Pink, set in the competitive world of female bodybuilding, became a surprise bestseller, winning Arnoldi praise from critics and readers alike. Her second novel, The Wentworths, also graced bestseller lists. She lives in Venice, California.
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“The prose style is spare and powerful and the pages turn effortlessly.”--Publishers Weekly
“A great read for beach or travel.”--Malibu Times, #1 Bestseller
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The stories collected here, available for the first time in paperback, represent a sampling of the prose that first established Bulgakov as a major figure in the literary renaissance of Moscow in the 1920s, long before he became known as an influential playwright and novelist. Learn More
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Dapper and smiling, Mr. Pye comes to the island of Sark with a mission--to conquer evil. He immediately sets about changing everyone he meets, but is unfortunately prone to excess. When the struggle between good and evil becomes embarrassingly personal, Mr. Pye is forced to embark on a campaign of unparalleled sin.
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Mervyn Peake, author of the internationally acclaimed Gormenghast novels, has created an extraordinarily imaginative story in Mr. Pye, his last novel and crowning achievement. In both the text and his own delightful illustrations, the author turns a moral battle into a hilarious and fantastical adventure. Learn More
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Danny Granville is taught as a child to throw perfectly with both arms. Under the strict tutelage of his baseball-obsessive dad, Danny skyrockets to the major leagues with his beloved Chicago Cubs, breaking records held for decades. But when a journalist hungry for a scoop discovers the Granvilles, the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to destroy the world that father and son have created. A baseball novel and much more, Billy Lombardo’s debut novel explores the ways in which we protect, betray, love, and change one another as we find our way through life.
Billy Lombardo directs the Community Service Program and teaches fiction at The Latin School of Chicago. His collection of short fiction, The Logic of a Rose, was the winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. This is his first novel. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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“The best baseball themed fiction so far this decade.” --Allen Barra
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural.... Lombardo’s one of a kind novel about a one of a kind ball player becomes as engrossing as a perfect game going into the late innings. If you’re in the stands, you don’t want to look away from the field, let alone leave the stadium early. Those who love to read about this great pastime will have the same feeling when reading about Denny Grenville, on and off the field. “ --Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune and All Things Considered
“Lombardo writes with a naturalness that makes his street-smart surface wholly convincing, but the seeming effortlessness of his storytelling depends on a sophisticated sense of craft and a deep sense of empathy.” --Stuart Dybek
“The best baseball themed fiction so far this decade.” --Allen Barra
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural.... Lombardo’s one of a kind novel about a one of a kind ball player becomes as engrossing as a perfect game going into the late innings. If you’re in the stands, you don’t want to look away from the field, let alone leave the stadium early. Those who love to read about this great pastime will have the same feeling when reading about Denny Grenville, on and off the field. “ --Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune and All Things Considered
“Lombardo writes with a naturalness that makes his street-smart surface wholly convincing, but the seeming effortlessness of his storytelling depends on a sophisticated sense of craft and a deep sense of empathy.” --Stuart Dybek
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Judge Joe Crater’s disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of The Depression. Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne, the detective encountered in Quinn’s novel Hour of the Cat, recently retired and bored, answers a summons to New York where he is asked to solve the old case for a newspaper magnate interested in making a profit.
Dunne confronts haphazard investigating, aggrieved participants, and a grieving spouse as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and Havana, wading through decades-old clues in an attempt to solve the mystery still baffling America. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable. Learn More
Dunne confronts haphazard investigating, aggrieved participants, and a grieving spouse as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and Havana, wading through decades-old clues in an attempt to solve the mystery still baffling America. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable. Learn More
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The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories never before published in the United States.
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Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favorite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coast of Dorset. The story is told by Jeremy garnet through whose bemused eyes we observe the magnificent Ukridge at work while following garnet’s own checkered romance with the daughter of a neighboring professor.
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Perhaps the most richly complex of McCarry s renowned Paul Christopher novels, The Last Supper is an epic recreation of the history of an organization ensnared by a culture of conspiracy, deceit, and senseless violence
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Kara Kush
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"A gripping adventure and a mosaic of vivid episodes interlaced with historical information about Afghanistan's ancient culture so well written, so skillfully paced, it's almost impossible to put down." San Francisco Chronicle Learn More
Julius Winsome (Paperback)
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Living alone with his dog in the remote cabin in the woods, Julius Winsome is not unlike the barren winter lands that he inhabits: remote, vacant, inscrutable. But when his dog Hobbes is killed by hunters, their carelessness or is it cruelty sets Julius s precarious mindset on end.
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Julius Winsome
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Living alone with his dog in the remote cabin in the woods, Julius Winsome is not unlike the barren winter lands that he inhabits: remote, vacant, inscrutable. But when his dog Hobbes is killed by hunters, their carelessness or is it cruelty sets Julius s precarious mindset on end.
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The Judging Eye
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A cult author now in the mainstream, his growing readership will thrill to the return of R. Scott Bakker and The Prince of Nothing. Learn More
The James Family
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The classic group biography of the famous literary family, available for the first time in forty years Learn More
Islandia
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The underground classic of utopian fiction unique, brilliantly conceived and brilliantly executed. (New York Times) Learn More
The Island of Second Sight
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Into Temptation (Paperback)
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The concluding book in international bestselling author Penny Vincenzi's deliciously entertaining saga of the Lytton family. Learn More
The Indiscretions of Archie
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Wodehouse triumphant, back with two more quintessential comedies! Learn More
In the Wilderness
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With his American debut, The Carpenter's Pencil, Manuel Rivas was hailed as a novelist of deep emotions and a powerful sense of history. Into the Wilderness continues that tradition; it's a wonderously multi-layered tale of brilliant ideas and trenchant imagery that combines tenderness, humor, and a strong sense of cultural identity. Learn More
In the Stacks
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From one of America's leading librarians, an anthology of the best short stories about every reader's first source of inspiration-the local library-a world full of mystery, excitement, and romance. Learn More
In the Last Blue
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From a dominant force in Spanish literature, a riveting and heartrending story of a group of Majorcan Jews in the Inquisition Learn More
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
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The twentieth century’s most remarkable feat of fantasy literature, with over 100 never-before-seen illustrations by Peake himself Learn More
Ice in the Bedroom
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Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie’s neighbor in the London suburb of Valley Fields. When their paths cross, the ensuing misunderstandings lead to vintage Wodehouse comedy. Learn More
Hunters and Gatherers (Paperback)
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A novel about fame, collectors, and post modern chaos. Learn More
Hour of the Cat
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On the eve of World War II, "just another little murder" in New York City draws two vastly different men--An American detective and a German admiral--into the Gathering Storm. Learn More
Honey West: This Girl for Hire
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Honey West is the hottest private eye in town...and she's up to her cleavage in murder. Learn More
Honey West: Kiss for A Killer
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L.A's nerviest, curviest P.I. is up to her navel in trouble again, and this time the murder rap has been framed on her. Learn More
The Heretic (Paperback)
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The World-renowned literary-historical novel that takes readers on a compelling journey through the Spanish Inquisition Learn More
The Heretic
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The World-renowned literary-historical novel that takes readers on a compelling journey through the Spanish Inquisition Learn More
Henry James
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The twentieth century s most revered American writers are brought to life in stunningly illustrated biographies by acclaimed scholars Learn More
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald (Paperback)
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A marvelous look at the most famous literary friendship of our time, set against the glittering backdrops of Paris, Pamplona, Capri and the Riviera. Learn More
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald
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A marvelous look at the most famous literary friendship of our time, set against the glittering backdrops of Paris, Pamplona, Capri and the Riviera. Learn More
The Head of Kay's
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Hash (Paperback)
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The wittily bleak, startlingly original, elegantly crafted tale of an unlikely quest for the ultimate hash. Learn More
Hash
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The wittily bleak, startlingly original, elegantly crafted tale of an unlikely quest for the ultimate hash. Learn More
Harry Gold (Paperback)
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A stunningly accurate fictional recreation of the life of Harry Gold, the spy who was central to the Rosenberg trial of the 1950s. Learn More
Harry Gold
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A stunningly accurate fictional recreation of the life of Harry Gold, the spy who was central to the Rosenberg trial of the 1950s. Learn More
Green Henry
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A masterpiece of world literature--an epic and realistic portrait of an artist as a young man in the 19th century. Learn More
Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult (Paperback)
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The classic collection of Yiddish fantasy and folklore: Thirty-one stories and novelettes. Learn More
Gone Tomorrow (Paperback)
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The fiction surprise of 2008 -- heralded by The New York Times as "a sharply observed yet tender novel" and a "quirky, tart yet unexpectedly generous story" -- finally in paperback. Learn More
The Girl in Blue
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P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, each Overlook Wodehouse is the finest edition of the master’s work ever published.
"The Girl in Blue” is a miniature painting which goes missing and leaves Wodehouse’s charming characters reeling and dealing to find it again.
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"The Girl in Blue” is a miniature painting which goes missing and leaves Wodehouse’s charming characters reeling and dealing to find it again.
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The Girl from the Golden Horn
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A novel from the mysterious author of the international bestseller Ali and Nino. Learn More
Getting Away with Murder (Paperback)
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A new mystery in the classic Benny Cooperman series. Learn More
The German Wedding
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A darkly funny, daring, and operatic novel set on the eve of a wedding at a Dutch seaside town. Learn More
A Gentleman of Leisure
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A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks—who starred in the film version—and concerns a young man, his love life, and a burglary. Learn More
Gascoyne
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Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption. Learn More
The Garden of Reading
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A veritable Eden of garden writing, by the best contemporary authors. Learn More
The Galosh (Paperback)
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The definitive edition of Soviet Russia s most beloved satirist, available for the first time in the United States Learn More
The Galosh
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The definitive edition of Soviet Russia s most beloved satirist, available for the first time in the United States Learn More
The Full Catastrophe
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Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. Learn More
Frozen Assets
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Wodehouse triumphant, back with two more quintessential comedies! Learn More
From Away (Paperback)
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Denny Braintree, a wisecracking loner devoted to model trains, finds himself stranded in late-winter Vermont. His night at the hotel begins with promise, but then his prospective one-night stand walks out on him. Leaving town, Denny is mistaken for look-a-like Homer Dumpling, a popular native son who mysteriously disappeared from town three years earlier. Instead of correcting the mistake, Denny dons his new identity as easily as a Vermonter’s winter fleece, and a good thing too—the woman he had hoped to sleep with has turned up dead, and Denny is the chief suspect.
As Denny tries to unravel the mystery, he struggles to hide his true identity from Homer’s increasingly suspicious circle of family and friends, including Homer’s prickly girlfriend. In Denny, Carkeet has crafted a fast-talking bumbler whose instinct for survival will face the ultimate challenge, with readers cheering him on all the way.
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As Denny tries to unravel the mystery, he struggles to hide his true identity from Homer’s increasingly suspicious circle of family and friends, including Homer’s prickly girlfriend. In Denny, Carkeet has crafted a fast-talking bumbler whose instinct for survival will face the ultimate challenge, with readers cheering him on all the way.
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From Away
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A unique comic mystery from the beloved author of Double Negative, hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "intelligent, unpredictable…and extraordinarily funny" Learn More
Freddy the Politician (Paperback)
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Freddy, the good-natured pig, promotes a campaign to get Mrs. Wiggins, the cow, elected president of the First Animal Republic. As an officer in the First Animal Bank he has more than a modicum of influence – if he can just figure out how to use it. Learn More
Freddy the Pilot
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Who can solve the mystery of Centerboro’s crime-wave? Who can defeat the evil tycoon, Walter P. Condiment? Only Freddy, “that charming ingenious pig” (The New York Times)! Learn More
Freddy the Detective (Paperback)
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The delightful detective story about the beloved animal characters on Mr. Bean’s farm, whose adventures have entertained so many children. Freddy the pig, stimulated by reading Sherlock Holmes, sets up in a business as a detective. Learn More
Freddy and the Space Ship (Paperback)
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Published over a 40 year period, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig have delighted five generations of children, they are now going on to delight a sixth generation.
This beloved children’s classic is available now as paperback:
Freddy and the Space Ship -- The lovable characters from Bean Farm took off for Mars in Benjamin Bean’s fabulous space ship but Mrs. Peppercorn’s fiddling with the controls knocked them off their course and landed them in a far more strange place than they had prepared for.
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This beloved children’s classic is available now as paperback:
Freddy and the Space Ship -- The lovable characters from Bean Farm took off for Mars in Benjamin Bean’s fabulous space ship but Mrs. Peppercorn’s fiddling with the controls knocked them off their course and landed them in a far more strange place than they had prepared for.
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Freddy and the Popinjay (Paperback)
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Published over a 40 year period, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig have delighted five generations of children, they are now going on to delight a sixth generation.
This beloved children’s classic is available now as paperback: Freddy and the Popinjay -- When J.J. Pomeroy, the robin, almost pulled off Freddy’s tail, thinking it was a worm, Freddy decided to transform the robin into a popinjay. This starts a series of transformations––some of which may be a big mistake.
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This beloved children’s classic is available now as paperback: Freddy and the Popinjay -- When J.J. Pomeroy, the robin, almost pulled off Freddy’s tail, thinking it was a worm, Freddy decided to transform the robin into a popinjay. This starts a series of transformations––some of which may be a big mistake.
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Freddy and The Perilous Adventure
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Danger strikes when Freddy the Pig and his friends go for a balloon ride. Learn More
Freddy and the Bean Home News (Paperback)
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An entertaining tale of the newspaper Freddy and his animal friends launch after the Centerboro Guardian comes under the control of the exceedingly wealthy and wicked Mrs. Underdunk. Learn More
Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars
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Freddy organizes a Martian baseball team to help Mr. Boorschmidt's circus. Learn More
The Foundation Pit
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Platonov speaks of a nation which in a sense has become a victim of its own language--From the Preface by Joseph Brodsky Learn More
Forbidden Places
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The latest seductive, engrossing drama by "the doyenne of the modern blockbuster" (Glamour)
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First Gray, Then White, Then Blue (Paperback)
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A novel from the prize-winning and highly-acclaimed author of The Virtuoso. Learn More
Fire in the East
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In the bestselling tradition of Steven Pressfield, Bernard Cornwell, and Conn Iggulden, a blockbuster set in gladiatorial Rome. Learn More
Fear Itself
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The “excellent” (The Times) new historical thriller about a homegrown Nazi plot against FDR. Learn More
Exquisite Corpse
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Robert Irwin's surrealistic novel is back in print: "A picaresque nightmare, a sinister shell game, an addled odyssey along the graying edges of the psyche-Exquisite Corpse is all of these things." (San Francisco Chronicle)
Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of absurdist art, "Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying." (A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times) This utterly captivating book is finally back in as part of Overlook's plan to bring Robert Irwin back into the literary limelight that he so much deserves.
Caspar, the narrator of Exquisite Corpse, is one of a strange bunch of friends known as the Serapion Brotherhood a group of artists, painters, and writers who are experimenting, expanding, and developing the then nascent concept of surrealism. While the real-life figures Andr Breton, Salvador Dali, and Henry Moore-among others-move in and out of the narrative, Caspar details his and his friends' investigations into sex, surrealism, hypnagogic imagery, waxworks, mesmerism, and madness. But when Caspar meets Caroline a beautiful and na ve young typist he is completely entranced. Strangely, she seems to fit in extremely well with the surrealists. Is all as it seems Where does she disappear to Caspar, himself, is unsure what is real and his therapist is no help at all but the tale he has woven is, as Ian Critchley wrote in the Sunday Times, "Superb!"
"An off-beat, brisk, and darkly comic novel. Robert Irwin is a deft writer with a fine ironic touch his novel, in which fiction and reality are woven unobtrusively together, is consistently clever and inventive." The New York Times
"A strange and elegant novel." The Boston Globe
"An immensely inventive and deceptive emotional novel." Village Voice
"Robert Irwin is a master of the surreal imagination " The Sunday Times
Robert Irwin studied Modern History at Oxford and taught Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. In addition to Exquisite Corpse, he has written five other novels-including the classic The Arabian Nightmare-and is the editor of Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature.
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Evangeline (Paperback)
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Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Evangeline is the sparkling debut novel by Ben Farmer. As early settlers are driven out of mid-eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, the beautiful seventeen-year-old Evangeline Bellefontaine is torn from her fiancé on the eve of their wedding. Heartbroken but determined, Evangeline—along with an illegal trapper and a priest—sets out on a ten-year journey across America, down the Mississippi to Louisiana to seek her true love. Evangeline is an enrapturing tale that artfully blends history, romance, and adventure with unforgettable characters.
Ben Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and raised. He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in history. Since, he has worked as a teacher, an editor, and in a booking agency for musicians. Evangeline is his first novel.
Ben Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and raised. He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in history. Since, he has worked as a teacher, an editor, and in a booking agency for musicians. Evangeline is his first novel.
Praise for Evangeline:
“Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won’t soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.” --Keith Donohue, The New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child
“Majestic and stately...Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.” –Katharine Weber, author of True Confections
“Farmer delivers an evocative impression of American colonial and frontier life; his descriptions of everything from the Maryland frontier to a Louisiana swamp settlement give a real sense of the New World’s newness. A meticulously-rendered setting . . a passion-driven plot.” --Publishers Weekly
“A historical romance written in unadorned prose, Farmer’s Evangeline will satisfy readers who allow themselves to swoon, who enjoy sentimentality . . . a kind of fiction that’s underrepresented in U.S. bookstores.” --ForeWord magazine
"Farmer has reinvested this classic adventure tale with plenty of historical detail and character traits that will surely bring it alive for many new readers.” --Bookreporter.com
“The thing that sets Farmer’s book apart is that it is pretty close to the original story as told in Longfellow’s poem...acurate and interesting.” -- Baton Rouge Advocate
“Farmer does a yeoman’s job in setting the poem in prose…It’s a grand tale told by a wonderful storyteller.” -- Owen Sound Sun Times
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“Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won’t soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.” --Keith Donohue, The New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child
“Majestic and stately...Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.” –Katharine Weber, author of True Confections
“Farmer delivers an evocative impression of American colonial and frontier life; his descriptions of everything from the Maryland frontier to a Louisiana swamp settlement give a real sense of the New World’s newness. A meticulously-rendered setting . . a passion-driven plot.” --Publishers Weekly
“A historical romance written in unadorned prose, Farmer’s Evangeline will satisfy readers who allow themselves to swoon, who enjoy sentimentality . . . a kind of fiction that’s underrepresented in U.S. bookstores.” --ForeWord magazine
"Farmer has reinvested this classic adventure tale with plenty of historical detail and character traits that will surely bring it alive for many new readers.” --Bookreporter.com
“The thing that sets Farmer’s book apart is that it is pretty close to the original story as told in Longfellow’s poem...acurate and interesting.” -- Baton Rouge Advocate
“Farmer does a yeoman’s job in setting the poem in prose…It’s a grand tale told by a wonderful storyteller.” -- Owen Sound Sun Times
Evangeline
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A brilliant debut novel of an epic love story and harrowing journey from Nova Scotia to New Orleans in pre-Revolutionary America Learn More
Envy
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Critics as far apart as Gleb Struve ("One of the most interesting and original works in the whole of Soviet literature") and Pravda ("Olesha's style is masterful, his psychological analysis infinitely subtle, his portrayal of negative characters truly striking") have praised the novel, and one of the signs of its universality is the fact that it has been claimed by nearly every school of critics and interpreted as everything from a submerged homosexual story to a 10th century Notes from the Underground. Learn More
Enlightenment (Paperback)
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That rare pleasure, a book that grips on every level, a bold and beautiful novel about history, memory and love. Nicci French, author of Catch Me When I Fall Learn More
Enlightenment
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That rare pleasure, a book that grips on every level, a bold and beautiful novel about history, memory and love. Nicci French, author of Catch Me When I Fall Learn More
Endless Things
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The acclaimed reality-altering finale to the dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique that is the gypt cycle (The New York Times Book Review) Learn More
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
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In the heart of London’s clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Drones Club. But all is not idle chatter that passes. Learn More
Eddie and the Cruisers
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"A sad, sad and wonderful book. What a wonderful rediscovery."--Sherman Alexie Learn More
Dragon's Eye (Paperback)
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A fast-paced and exhilarating manhunt through modern China - a trail as intricate and sinuous as the Yangtze River winding into the heart of Shanghai. Learn More
Dragon's Eye
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A fast-paced and exhilarating manhunt through modern China - a trail as intricate and sinuous as the Yangtze River winding into the heart of Shanghai. Learn More
The Double
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At once a comic masterpiece and a penetrating examination of a mental breakdown, The Double portrays Golyadkin, a petty government official convinced that his "double" a man who looks just like him, works in his office, and bears the same name, but is otherwise superior to him in every aspect is ruining his life. With keen psychological insight far ahead of its time, leading to wide misinterpretation among critics upon its first publication in 1846, Dostoevsky s second novel is now recognized as one his most important works and one that inspired nearly hundreds of imitations. Learn More
Dostoevsky Letters Volume 5 1878-1881
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The remarkable translation by Lowe...is so expert that one forgets Dostoevsky wrote in Russian...--Publishers Weekly Learn More
Dostoevsky Letters Volume 4 1872-1877
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Lowe's translation...captures the feverish impressionable quality of a mind as taut as a bow.--Publishers Weekly Learn More
Dostoevsky Letters Volume 3 1868-1871
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Lowe's translation...captures the feverish impressionable quality of a mind as taut as a bow.--Publishers Weekly Learn More
Don Quixote's Delusions
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An author praised for "an observational skill that can erupt into pure comedy" (Daily Telegraph) writes a remarkable book about modern Spain and how Don Quixote, Cervantes's brilliant character, reveals so much about Spain today.
Miranda France is a travel writer-cum-literary critic with an unsparingly truthful and delightfully absurd voice. "She has a wonderfully quick and vivid eye for convincing detail," said Christopher House in The Spectator. Her new book tells us about Spain by juxtaposing Cervantes's life and his character's adventures with the author's own delightful anecdotes, incomparable characters, and insightful observations.
At the heart of Miranda France's utterly engaging book are two very different visits to Spain, set ten years apart. In 1987, the author spends her student year in Madrid when post-Franco ebullience was at its height and pornography and soft drugs were legalized, along with divorce, party-affiliation, and kissing in the street. A return trip to central Spain, taken in 1998, shows France that much has changed in the country, but also that much has endured. An incomparable cast of real-life characters, along with France's compelling investigations of the world's first novel, Cervantes's Don Quixote published in 1605 and, the author finds out, the most translated book after the Bible-reveal much about the identity of modern Spain and its people.
"Miranda France is an adroit narrator, with an eye for deft character sketches and an instinctive tendency to see the funny side of everything Don Quixote's Delusions is a sophisticated, multi-layered book." Sunday Times
Miranda France is the author of Bad Times in Buenos Aires, which was short listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. She was brought up in East Anglia and Sussex, and now lives with her husband and son in London.
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The Distance from Here
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A dark and provocative new play by award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Neil LaBute.
No American playwright has written more compellingly about the subtle ways in which people inflict pain on each other than Neil LaBute. His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of American suburbia.
With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out-the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot-Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell's suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.
"LaBute, in his most ambitious and best play to date, gets inside the emptiness of American culture, the Masquerade and the evil of neglect. The Distance from Here, it seems to me, is a new title to be added to the short list of important contemporary plays." John Lahr, The New Yorker
"LaBute's skill, and the shortness of the scenes, are compelling [his] excellent writing generates an exact depiction of empty, soulless, thoughtless lives." Hal Jensen, Times Literary Supplement
Neil LaBute's first film, In the Company of Men received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best feature and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. He has also written and directed Your Friends and Neighbors and the forthcoming The Shape of Things, and directed Nurse Betty and the soon to be released Possession. His other plays include Bash (available from Overlook), Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, Sangunarians and Sycophants, Rounder, and Ravages.
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A Different World (Paperback)
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The final volume of the widely acclaimed Brazilian trilogy. Learn More
Deliverance from Evil
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Salem, Massachusetts, Winter 1692: In the parsonage of Reverend Samuel Parris, two young girls are seated by the fire and play at fortune-telling as snow falls softly outside. What starts as a game sends one of the girls into a hysterical trance, and a small town begins its descent into madness. Accusations of witchcraft would destroy lives and old scores would be settled. Over 150 people would be arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused of consorting with the devil.
In Deliverance from Evil, Frances Hill brings her deep historical and political understanding together with her honed skills as a novelist to produce a picture of the Salem witch trials both realistic and emotional.
FRANCES HILL is a historian, novelist and journalist whose previous books include Out of Bounds, A Delusion of Satan, The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Hunting for Witches, and Such Men Are Dangerous. Frances Hill lives in Connecticut.
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In Deliverance from Evil, Frances Hill brings her deep historical and political understanding together with her honed skills as a novelist to produce a picture of the Salem witch trials both realistic and emotional.
FRANCES HILL is a historian, novelist and journalist whose previous books include Out of Bounds, A Delusion of Satan, The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Hunting for Witches, and Such Men Are Dangerous. Frances Hill lives in Connecticut.
Praise for Deliverance From Evil
"Re-imagines the superstition and hysteria surrounding the 17th-century Salem witch trials in novelistic form." --USA Today
"In this beautiful, memorable and exquisitely crafted novel, Frances Hill, world expert on the Salem Witch hunt, brings both persecutors and persecuted to breathing life on the page. History and fiction blend seamlessly: Hill's people are our suffering contemporaries whose dilemmas speak powerfully to the modern condition." --Steve Davies, Booker and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Element of Water
"When history makes you weep, it is the novelist's job to give meaning to the tears. Frances Hill has done this. Be as brave as she had been and read this book." --Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
"Historian Hill utilizes her extensive research on the Salem Witch Trials to bone-chilling effect in this riveting tale of a town spiraling out of control." --Booklist
"Frances Hill, an expert on the Salem witch-hunt, has crafted a dramatic novel bringing to life the accusers and the accused" --Sun Journal
"More dramatic [than Salem Possessed]." --John Updike, The New YorkerPraise for Frances Hill's Previous Works:
"Its vivid description gives the feeling that the Salem witch hunt happened five minutes ago."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An entertaining and suspenseful drama [that is] also a cautionary tale for our times." --Boston Globe
"Re-imagines the superstition and hysteria surrounding the 17th-century Salem witch trials in novelistic form." --USA Today
"In this beautiful, memorable and exquisitely crafted novel, Frances Hill, world expert on the Salem Witch hunt, brings both persecutors and persecuted to breathing life on the page. History and fiction blend seamlessly: Hill's people are our suffering contemporaries whose dilemmas speak powerfully to the modern condition." --Steve Davies, Booker and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Element of Water
"When history makes you weep, it is the novelist's job to give meaning to the tears. Frances Hill has done this. Be as brave as she had been and read this book." --Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
"Historian Hill utilizes her extensive research on the Salem Witch Trials to bone-chilling effect in this riveting tale of a town spiraling out of control." --Booklist
"Frances Hill, an expert on the Salem witch-hunt, has crafted a dramatic novel bringing to life the accusers and the accused" --Sun Journal
"More dramatic [than Salem Possessed]." --John Updike, The New YorkerPraise for Frances Hill's Previous Works:
"Its vivid description gives the feeling that the Salem witch hunt happened five minutes ago."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An entertaining and suspenseful drama [that is] also a cautionary tale for our times." --Boston Globe
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Deliverance from Evil
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Dramatic and moving, the breakout novel by Salem historian Frances Hill makes the witch hunts terrifyingly vivid Learn More
The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
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The debut novel from best-selling espionage thriller writer Robert Littell--finally back in print. Learn More
The Debriefing
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A terrifying excursion into the ambiguous world of deceit, illusion, and treachery that is espionage by bestselling master-of-the genre, Robert Littell. Learn More
Dead and Buried (Paperback)
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The intrepid gumshoe is in it up to his neck in toxic waste in this latest foray. Learn More
Dead and Buried
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The intrepid gumshoe is in it up to his neck in toxic waste in this latest foray. Learn More
Dawn Stag (Paperback)
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The second volume of the historical fantasy trilogy praised for deftly blending fact and fancy, action and romance (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Learn More
Dawn Stag
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The second volume of the historical fantasy trilogy praised for deftly blending fact and fancy, action and romance (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Learn More
Daughter of Providence
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Daughter of Providence is a beautifully written and moving debut novel by an important new voice in American fiction. Learn More
Daughter of Providence
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The "sympathetic and compelling" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) novel about a young woman untangling family secrets and claiming her independence. Learn More
The Darkroom of Damocles (Paperback)
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The modern day masterpiece from Holland, widely considered the greatest Dutch novel of the 20th century—finally available in English. Learn More
The Darkroom of Damocles
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The most critically acclaimed Dutch novel of the 20th Century- finally available in English. Learn More
The Darkness That Comes Before (Paperback)
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In the tradition of Tolkien and Herbert, the stunning first volume of an accomplished new literary fantasy trilogy. Learn More
Dark Companion (Paperback)
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Overlook continues its reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbet’s oeuvre with Dark Companion. Nisbet, the acclaimed noir writer from San Francisco captures the absurdities of present-day America with a rare pungency in this noir gem.
Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian-American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf ’s relationship with his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, Toby Pride, and Pride’s stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolf’s placid world is shattered and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement that’s both stunning and absolutely perfect.
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Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian-American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf ’s relationship with his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, Toby Pride, and Pride’s stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolf’s placid world is shattered and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement that’s both stunning and absolutely perfect.
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Daniel Stein, Interpreter
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Daniel Stein, Interpreter is already seen by many as the great Russian novel of our time. Learn More
Daniel Stein, Interpreter
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The award-winning literary tour de force by “one of the most important living Russian writers.” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story) Learn More
A Dangerous Liaison (Paperback)
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A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes-painful story of how two brilliant freethinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than 50 years. This is the first dual biography of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sarte. Learn More
The Damned Don't Die
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Overlook continues it reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbit’s oeuvre with The Damned Don’t Die. Learn More
Daemonomania
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A prophecy of America entering the authentic new age: Magical, potentially destructive, and utterly uncanny. Harold Bloom Learn More
The Cuban Prospect (Paperback)
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Reminiscent of Richard Ford and Thomas McGuane, a debut of startling power and clarity a novel as much about the workings of the human psyche as it is about baseball. Learn More
The Cuban Prospect
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Reminiscent of Richard Ford and Thomas McGuane, a debut of startling power and clarity a novel as much about the workings of the human psyche as it is about baseball. Learn More
Critical Prose and Letters
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Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), along with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, was one of the greatest poets of the Soviet period. He was also a brilliant essayist who took the destruction of his culture as one of his main subjects. This comprehensive volume contains most of Mandelstam s essays, reviews, memoirs, reportage, sketches, polemics, forewords, fragments, and notes and the major long prose works of the 1930 s, including: "Fourth Prose," "Journey to Armenia," and "Conversations about Dante." Learn More
Creation
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An historical account that plays with the very nature of historical inquiry and humanity's place in the natural order. Learn More
Courting Shadows (Paperback)
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Utterly absorbing unquestionably, this heralds the arrival or an extraordinary new voice nuanced, sympathetic, compelling. The Post Learn More
Courting Shadows
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Utterly absorbing unquestionably, this heralds the arrival or an extraordinary new voice nuanced, sympathetic, compelling. The Post Learn More
The Cooperman Variations
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A new caper starring Benny Cooperman, the lovable and intrepid sleuth that Donald Westlake says is "a lot of fun to hang out with".
Benny Cooperman is a detective with flair, known and loved as the witty, egg salad-loving, Jewish gentleman sleuth he is the world over. This kinder, gentler detective funny, smart and squeamish about violence is the creation of master of the genre Howard Engel, whose readers stretch now to thirteen countries, from his native Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the US.
This time around, a murder and a beautiful woman are the key elements that get Benny embroiled in the scandalous world of television broadcasting. It all starts when Benny, mulling over the lack of stimulating work and the absence of his girlfriend, is visited by a woman from his past. Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty who has grown up to become Head of Entertainment at a television network, asks Benny to protect her. A friend was murdered while at her house and Vanessa fears she was the target. In Toronto, Benny poses as Vanessa's executive assistant amidst a tangle of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and hopeful hangers-on. As Benny tries to protect his client, give the local cops a helping hand, and avoid making enemies of his colleagues, he quickly discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business.
"Mr. Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines." Ruth Rendell
"Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler." Julian Symons
"The Cooperman novels are heavy on full-bodied characters, sharp dialogue, and rich humor. Benny just plain charms the socks off anyone he meets." Booklist
Howard Engel is the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, and creator of the acclaimed Benny Cooperman mystery series as well as Murder in Montparnasse, a departure from the series. He is a founding member of the Crime Writer's Association of Canada, where his private eye has been described as a cherished national institution. He lives in Toronto.
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Confessions of a Gambler
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A riveting tale of addiction, family, and redemption in the Muslim world told by one of Africa's most celbrated novelists. Learn More
The Complete Roderick
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"In a properly run universe John Sladek's Roderick would be regarded as a major American novel. Which it is." Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Learn More
Company for Henry
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The Wodehouse phenomenon continues with another sparkling classics from the master of social hijinks and comedy. Learn More
The Company
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The magnum opus of acclaimed espionage novelist Robert Littell: a mesmerizing, dazzlingly plotted epic that tells the life and death struggle of two generations of CIA operatives during a long Cold War. Learn More
The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig
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Verse stylings from Freddy, the world's distinguished pig-of-letters. Learn More
The City of Dreaming Books
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By the author of The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, a fantastic tale for every book lover Learn More
Christopher's Ghosts (Paperback)
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In McCarry's first work since the astonishing revival of his legendary espionage novels, Paul Christopher is back but so is the only adversary that ever eluded him. Learn More
Christopher's Ghosts
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In McCarry's first work since the astonishing revival of his legendary espionage novels, Paul Christopher is back but so is the only adversary that ever eluded him. Learn More
Children of Albion Rovers
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New Scottish writing by Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner et al. Learn More
Child of All Nations
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The fist appearance in English of this harrowing and enchanting novel destined to be a classic Learn More
Chasm
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The first novel by the acclaimed artist and poet a surrealist gothic fantasy that explores the nature of desire and its darkest mysteries. Learn More
Castle Gripsholm (Paperback)
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The multi-layered allegorical masterpiece that prefigured the rise of National Socialism. Learn More
Cast Not the Day (Paperback)
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By the middle of fourth century A.D., Britain and the Roman Empire had been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors. Now, at last, with the force of the state behind it, the Church was strong enough to suppress all opposition to its power. But in Britain there was still resistance.
Seen through the eyes of Drusus, a young British Roman, and set against the backdrop of imperial civil war and the growing threat from Rome’s enemies beyond its frontiers, the followers of faith and reason clash and the old values of classical enlightenment are called into question.
And it is Drusus who is there to witness the cracks as they begin to split the great monumental edifice of the Roman Empire...
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Seen through the eyes of Drusus, a young British Roman, and set against the backdrop of imperial civil war and the growing threat from Rome’s enemies beyond its frontiers, the followers of faith and reason clash and the old values of classical enlightenment are called into question.
And it is Drusus who is there to witness the cracks as they begin to split the great monumental edifice of the Roman Empire...
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
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A moving story of a simple Russian peasant caught on the Eastern Front in World War I, this classic novel was first published to wide acclaim in English in 1928. Learn More
Carpetbagger's Children and The Actor
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Two new plays from the distinctive American vision of Pulitzer Prize-winner Horton Foote. Learn More
The Carpenter's Pencil (Paperback)
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The best-selling novel of the Spanish Civil War in its first U.S. publication. Learn More
The Carpenter's Pencil
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The best-selling novel of the Spanish Civil War in its first U.S. publication. Learn More
Carmen's Rust
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A chilling and mult-layered exploration of incest, repression, and regret that slowly reveals the darkest underbelly and heartbreak of the Chilean dictatorship Learn More
The Caretaker of Lorne Field
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“There's a new name to add to the pantheon of the sons and daughters of Cain: Dave Zeltserman.”—Washington Post Learn More
The Caretaker of Lorne Field
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Shortlisted for the ALA Best Horror Award and the Dark Scribe Magazine Book of the Year, the readers' favorite "delicious, horrorish" (Newsday) tale of the year Learn More
A Captive Spirit
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A Captive Spirit shows Marina Tsvetaeva's genius at the peak of its power.
"The Russianness of Tsvetaeva's poetry and prose-singularly direct and forceful are they are consists in an obvious authenticity of the emotions. Everything is felt instantly and strongly; everything is strashny and vesely terrible and joyful and yet about this directness there is nothing histrionic, sloppy, or self-indulgent." JOHN BAYLEY, The New York Review of Books Learn More
The Camelot Conspiracy
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As this spellbinding thriller by E. Duke Vincent unfolds, a gripping story emerges, masterfully connecting the dots between the Kennedys, Castro, The Mob, the CIA . . . and the Grassy Knoll. Learn More
A Call From Jersey
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The transcendent father-son story that brings to life the American immigrant experience Learn More
A Burning Interior
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David Shapiro shows both range and virtuosity: here are poems for Picasso, sonnets, rhymed translations, and prose poems in this assured new collection of poetry-as Philip Lopate has said, Shapiro's poetry is "intensely accessible, modest, and truthful". Learn More
Bug Jack Barron
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The classic satirical science fiction tale that defied conservative media conventions and was virtually banned when it first appeared Learn More
Brother of Sleep (Paperback)
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Robert Musil Prize-winning novel of a musical genius. Learn More
Boomtown
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A funny, smart novel about the blithe over-reaching of dot.com players in New York City Learn More
The Book of Leviathan (Paperback)
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Graphic fiction chronicling an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Learn More
The Book of Kings
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A sweeping novel set across Europe in the years shortly before and during World War II. Learn More
The Book About Blanche and Marie (Paperback)
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From one of the world s most acclaimed authors comes a provocative and exquisitely rendered tale that entwines scientific exploration and the search for love. Learn More
The Book About Blanche and Marie
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From one of the world s most acclaimed authors comes a provocative and exquisitely rendered tale that entwines scientific exploration and the search for love. Learn More
The Boat to Redemption
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This searing parable of exile in China, winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, by the author of Raise the Red Lantern Learn More
Blue (Paperback)
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A stunningly original first novel inspired by the Talmud, full-color illustrations throughout Learn More
Blue
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A stunningly original first novel inspired by the Talmud, full-color illustrations throughout Learn More
Bloodlines
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A novel-in-verse about how each generation attempts to shed the slavery of the past. Learn More
The Blood Girls
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Novel about a small town's ordeal when a young girl experiences stigmata. Learn More
Bliss, Remembered (Paperback)
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With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature which ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody’s All American which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time.
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics Sydney begins an intense love affair with a German, but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart. Back in the US, Sydney is left healing her broken heart when a striking American begins to pursue her.
Sydney is daring, vulnerable, and memorable. With her the reader longs for an earlier time with its greater simplicity and honesty, when promises seemed to be forever but choices so dire in the enveloping shadows of a changing world. Learn More
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics Sydney begins an intense love affair with a German, but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart. Back in the US, Sydney is left healing her broken heart when a striking American begins to pursue her.
Sydney is daring, vulnerable, and memorable. With her the reader longs for an earlier time with its greater simplicity and honesty, when promises seemed to be forever but choices so dire in the enveloping shadows of a changing world. Learn More
Bleeding London (Paperback)
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A darkly funny novel with London as the obsession. Learn More
Billy
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"The biography that is breaking records and astonishing the publishing world. Soaring high above other bestsellers, BILLY was found under more Christmas trees than any other new book the level of its success has rewritten the rules of the industry" The Observer Learn More
Biggest Elvis
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By the author of the heralded novel Gone Tomorrow, a sparkling work on American pop culture. Learn More
The Big Exit
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The compulsive, true-to-life crime novel by the author of the "brilliantly realized" (Booklist) thriller Knife Music. Learn More
Beyond Sleep (Paperback)
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Beyond Sleep is a classic of post-war European literature the saga of a man at the limits of the civilized world. Learn More
Beyond Sleep
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Beyond Sleep is a classic of post-war European literature the saga of a man at the limits of the civilized world. Learn More
The Better Angels
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The prophetic thriller from "the best writer of intteligence and political novels in the world" (The Boston Globe)( Learn More
Beta Male (Paperback)
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Are your carefree twenties a retreating memory? Are your friends discussing children and fixed-rate mortgages while you clutch your Xbox, sobbing? You’re not the only one.
Sam Hunt is a confused male in his very late twenties. A work-shy, commitment-phobic actor, he is beginning to worry that turning thirty might be the last straw. Beta males one and all, Sam and his friends are desperately clinging to their independence, while secretly they are all terrified of ending up alone. Alan has just been proposed to by his girlfriend. Newly-dumped Ed spends his time tearfully watching Sex and the City. Meanwhile unemployed doctor Matt makes a dubious bet with Sam to see who can be the first to ensnare a rich wife and enjoy a life of leisure... Beta Male is a funny and painfully honest chronicle about friendship, masculinity, marriage and the beginning of the end of the beginning of adulthood.
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Sam Hunt is a confused male in his very late twenties. A work-shy, commitment-phobic actor, he is beginning to worry that turning thirty might be the last straw. Beta males one and all, Sam and his friends are desperately clinging to their independence, while secretly they are all terrified of ending up alone. Alan has just been proposed to by his girlfriend. Newly-dumped Ed spends his time tearfully watching Sex and the City. Meanwhile unemployed doctor Matt makes a dubious bet with Sam to see who can be the first to ensnare a rich wife and enjoy a life of leisure... Beta Male is a funny and painfully honest chronicle about friendship, masculinity, marriage and the beginning of the end of the beginning of adulthood.
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Belle de Jour
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The classic of erotic fiction by one of France's greatest writers, long unavailable and more timely than ever. Learn More
Before
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America s most acclaimed writers express the confusion, elation, apprehension, and joy of pregnancy and childbirth Learn More
Bedlam Burning (Paperback)
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With a dash of "Dead Poet's Society" and a wink at One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Geoff Nicholson takes on the themes of madness and the literary life. Learn More
Bedlam Burning
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With a dash of "Dead Poet's Society" and a wink at One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Geoff Nicholson takes on the themes of madness and the literary life. Learn More
Bedlam (Paperback)
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Struggling with romantic entanglements and her stressful rise to prominence on the literary scene, Charlotte Bronte is more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte tours Bedlam and is sure she recognizes Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Charlotte starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that some would kill to protect. It is up to Charlotte to find the truth and expose a plot of global proportion. But what if the conspirators get to her first?
Laura Joh Rowland is the author of fifteen other mysteries, including the critically acclaimed The Secret
Adventures of Charlotte Bronte;, The Snow Empress, and The Cloud Pavilion. She was educated at the University of Michigan and lives in New York City with her husband and cat.
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Laura Joh Rowland is the author of fifteen other mysteries, including the critically acclaimed The Secret
Adventures of Charlotte Bronte;, The Snow Empress, and The Cloud Pavilion. She was educated at the University of Michigan and lives in New York City with her husband and cat.
“Sharply relevant, Rowland’s inventive action-thriller delivers enough intrigue and romance to satisfy a wide array of readers.”--Booklist
“[Rowland] creates a believable Charlotte whose intelligence, stubbornness, and wit recall Jane at every turn. Even more important, the mystery itself is particularly fine.”--Entertainment Weekly
“Rowland simply refuses to let readers lift their eyes from the page.”--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“This delightful and sophisticated mystery transports readers through an era of Victorian history, with Charlotte Bronte; leading the way... A must read for historical fans.”--Romantic Times
“[Rowland] creates a believable Charlotte whose intelligence, stubbornness, and wit recall Jane at every turn. Even more important, the mystery itself is particularly fine.”--Entertainment Weekly
“Rowland simply refuses to let readers lift their eyes from the page.”--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“This delightful and sophisticated mystery transports readers through an era of Victorian history, with Charlotte Bronte; leading the way... A must read for historical fans.”--Romantic Times
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A Bed of Earth (Paperback)
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From World Fantasy Award-winner Tanith Lee, comes a terrifying novel of sixteenth century Venice-part three of her thrilling Secret Books of Venus series. Learn More
A Bed of Earth
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From World Fantasy Award-winner Tanith Lee, comes a terrifying novel of sixteenth century Venice-part three of her thrilling Secret Books of Venus series. Learn More
Barmy in Wonderland
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The Wodehouse series continues with a sparkling novel from the master of hijinks and social comedy. Learn More
The Ballad of Johnny Sosa (Paperback)
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Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Hampsten
Published for the first time in English, a splendid novel by one of Uruguay's top literary authors, whose "writing is reminiscent of the virtuous economy of language in Garca Mrquez's short novels" El Pas
Published now in 10 countries to extraordinary acclaim and available in English for the first time, The Ballad of Johnny Sosa depicts an ordinary man trying to live out his dreams in a dreary provincial town in central Uruguay while suffocating in the tentacles of military oppression. Every night, Johnny Sosa, a poor, young, black musician, sings melancholic soul music in the small bar in the town's brothel, dreaming of a life beyond his confining world and for a few hours each day, ignoring the secretive and oppressive military regime a dictatorship not so much seen as felt-that has taken over his country.
He attracts the attention of the local military leader who uses Sosa for his own political ends, and, for a while, Johnny is permitted to sing and to imagine that he will perform at the national festival, where discovery and success may await him. But, as his friends mysteriously start to disappear, Johnny begins to realize the price of his dream, and must decide if he will pay it.
The stripped-down quality of its prose, deft ironies, and tragi-comic insight into the strength of human nature under adversity all contribute to the prolonged impact of this penetrating novel from a country now reclaiming its literary tradition. Masterfully subversive and utterly brilliant, The Ballad of Johnny Sosa is a finely honed parable on human dignity.
"The Ballad of Johnny Sosa has earned a place among the short masterpieces for which contemporary Latin American literature has become known. The book has the makings of a classic, a judgment borne out by its success in Europe. Keep your eyes on the book and its author. Mario Delgado Aparan is on the brink of a brilliant literary career. El Pas
"A small jewel from a country in which gradually literature is blossoming after the devastation of tyranny." Wochenpost
Mario Delgado Aparan is a novelist and short story writer as well as a journalist and university professor. He first became famous in Uruguay for his short stories, which depicted the contrast between country and city life of Uruguayans. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he was head of the Department of Culture for several years and now again works.
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The Ballad of Johnny Sosa
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Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Hampsten
Published for the first time in English, a splendid novel by one of Uruguay's top literary authors, whose "writing is reminiscent of the virtuous economy of language in Garc a M rquez's short novels" El Pa s
Published now in 10 countries to extraordinary acclaim and available in English for the first time, The Ballad of Johnny Sosa depicts an ordinary man trying to live out his dreams in a dreary provincial town in central Uruguay while suffocating in the tentacles of military oppression. Every night, Johnny Sosa, a poor, young, black musician, sings melancholic soul music in the small bar in the town's brothel, dreaming of a life beyond his confining world and for a few hours each day, ignoring the secretive and oppressive military regime a dictatorship not so much seen as felt-that has taken over his country.
He attracts the attention of the local military leader who uses Sosa for his own political ends, and, for a while, Johnny is permitted to sing and to imagine that he will perform at the national festival, where discovery and success may await him. But, as his friends mysteriously start to disappear, Johnny begins to realize the price of his dream, and must decide if he will pay it.
The stripped-down quality of its prose, deft ironies, and tragi-comic insight into the strength of human nature under adversity all contribute to the prolonged impact of this penetrating novel from a country now reclaiming its literary tradition. Masterfully subversive and utterly brilliant, The Ballad of Johnny Sosa is a finely honed parable on human dignity.
"The Ballad of Johnny Sosa has earned a place among the short masterpieces for which contemporary Latin American literature has become known. The book has the makings of a classic, a judgment borne out by its success in Europe. Keep your eyes on the book and its author. Mario Delgado Apara n is on the brink of a brilliant literary career. El Pa s
"A small jewel from a country in which gradually literature is blossoming after the devastation of tyranny." Wochenpost
Mario Delgado Apara n is a novelist and short story writer as well as a journalist and university professor. He first became famous in Uruguay for his short stories, which depicted the contrast between country and city life of Uruguayans. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he was head of the Department of Culture for several years and now again works.
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The Ascetic of Desire (Paperback)
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A debut novel about the enigmatic author of the Kama Sutra. Learn More
As High as the Scooter Can Fly
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What does the heroine of a modern fairy tale need after "Once Upon a Time" Well, four opinionated sisters, animals who talk (and are as exasperatingly outspoken as the sisters) and a flying scooter would be nice, for starters
Written with soft-pedaled irony, captivating charm, and tremendous heart, Lia Nirgad's As High as the Scooter Can Fly will seduce fans of Alice Hoffman, Angela Carter and The Little Prince it is the perfect grown-up fairy-tale.
Stuck in a small suburban house, with three daughters and an impressively dull husband who leaves her frozen inside, Layla dreams of far-off lands and a more fabulous life, asking herself, like Peggy Lee did, "Is That All There Is " (But don't we all sometimes !) With fairy tale logic, her wish for travel makes it so if you don't ask you don't get-and she discovers in her backyard a flying scooter, covered by vines, dead leaves and lots of dust. And of course, if you remember your dream and brush off the dead leaves and dust and untangle the vines, things can start to happen. And they do.
Layla embarks on a series of trips, while her sisters watch on but not silently. Liora, the eldest, nags Layla to grow up and settle down, and she has a potion to help. Lenore, whose eyes change from violet to blue before she plucks men's hearts out with her knife-sharp nails, urges Layla to find a lover. Lihi advocates denial, and Luna, long dead, visits Layla at night and sniffs her troubled dreams. And if these conflicting opinions weren't enough, Layla and her sisters are ruled by the Loveless Winds, which urge them to settle for security and to forget about love and passion. But are they right As Layla travels the globe, throwing herself headlong into life, she encounters everything a heroine deserves nothing less than the world, in all its rich confusion and voluptuous delight.
Lia Nirgad is a writer and translator, born in Belgium and raised in Nigeria, Argentina, and Israel, where she now lives. As High as the Scooter Can Fly is her first novel to be published in English; she has published two novels in Hebrew Like Jamaica and Alien Body as well as a children's story, "A Kiss for Shpunza," which has been televised for Israeli educational television. Her translations include Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Lorrie Moore's Birds of America, and Javier Marias's El Hombre Sentimental.
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The Arabian Nightmare
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Robert Irwin's seductive and disturbing fantasy classic takes the framework of the Thousand and One Nights and turns it inside out and upside down to create a phantasmagoric and sensual rendering of ancient Cairo. Learn More
Any Day Now
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The "masterpiece" (Jonathan Lethem) by a key figure of the radical 1960s Learn More
Another Woman
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A dream wedding turns to nightmare when
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The Anniversary Man
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By the internationally best-selling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS... Learn More
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America's Children (Paperback)
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Thackara's debut novel, set at the birth of the nuclear age Learn More
Almost a Crime (Paperback)
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Penny Vincenzi has sold millions across the globe to adoring readers, and since the heart-stopping success of The Spoils of Time trilogy (The Lytton Trilogy) fans in the U.S. have been anxious to get their hands on Vincenzi s latest page-turner, new from Overlook, Almost a Crime. Learn More
Almost a Crime
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Penny Vincenzi has sold millions across the globe to adoring readers, and since the heart-stopping success of The Spoils of Time trilogy (The Lytton Trilogy) fans in the U.S. have been anxious to get their hands on Vincenzi s latest page-turner, new from Overlook, Almost a Crime. Learn More
All the Tea in China
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A hilarious, lecherous, swashbuckling odyssey from the creator of the Mortdecai trilogy Learn More
All Saints' Day
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From the acclaimed Sewanee Writers' Series, "a brilliantly original, dramatic, and moving tale of life in the Cajun country of Louisiana, with its dangerous oil rigs, decaying plantation houses, and intense loves and hatreds." Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Foreign Affairs.
All Saints' Day is a bold and provocative debut novel that calls to mind Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. Brent Benoit movingly chronicles two generations of a fictional family of Cajun ancestry. The Bueche family of Maringouin, Louisiana, has been defined by a tragedy-the accidental death of their gifted, infant child at the hands of his feeble twin brother. It is an event that seems almost preordained, sending shock waves both into the past and into the future. The lives of both parents, Ulysse (a.k.a. Russell) and Doreen, are driven toward it, and in putting it behind them the child's brothers, Whitaker and Clayton, reach toward resolution while teetering on the verge of catastrophe.
In All Saints' Day, the lives of simple people attain the status of myth, as the dynamic elements of fate, guilt, and reconciliation are woven together to produce a story that both captivates the reader in its rendering of a vanishing culture and surprises at every turn. Tautly written, both harrowing and heart-filled, All Saints' Day marks Brent Benoit's emergence as a writer to watch.
"This vivid, original novel about Cajuns in Louisiana is often funny, always moving, even harrowing. All Saints' Day brings us a writer of great talent, and Brent Benoit gives us a fascinating glimpse of a community not often written about and perhaps vanishing." Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce
Brent Benoit was born in 1974 and raised in South Louisiana. He works as both a writing teacher at Louisiana State University and a homebuilder in Baton Rouge where he lives with his wife, Meredith and their son William Luc. He is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from L.S.U. He is currently at work on his second novel.
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The Alchemaster's Apprentice (Paperback)
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Moers returns with a fourth “relentlessly whimsical” fantasy (Library Journal). Learn More
The Alchemaster's Apprentice
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The fourth book in the beloved Zamonia series by Overlook's bestselling author Walter Moers Learn More
After You with the Pistol
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Another deliciously nasty, highly entertaining, comic masterpiece featuring the honorable Charlie Mortdecai. Learn More
After Annie
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The beguiling debut with the charm of Lost in Translation, by turns laugh-out-loud funny, bittersweet...and profound Learn More
After
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Nine months after Before , a bold new collection of fiction about the realities and surrealities of having and raising children in America today. Learn More
The African Safari Papers
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Now being adapted as a movie, this novel is the most enjoyable dysfunctional-family drama since The Royal Tenenbaums Learn More
The Aerialist
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A debut novel that chronicles a young man's retreat into the world of the circus. Learn More
Actress in the House (Paperback)
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A riveting new novel-a story of abuse, shock, and redemption-by the author hailed for his "intellectual reach, his passionately earnest sensibility, and his desire to reformulate American fiction." (Tom LeClair, The New Republic)
When Joseph McElroy's debut novel, A Smuggler's Bible, was first published in 1966, it was hailed in the New York Times as a novel of "daring, range, and brilliant subtlety to ignore it would be as shameful an act of blind self-deprivation as that which so many of us performed when The Recognitions and Under the Volcano were first published." Actress in the House is his first novel in twelve years, a provocative and imaginative work that explores the mysterious interaction of memory, abuse, love, and violence.
Struck in the face, the actress on stage is staggered but doesn't fall. She gazes into the audience, staring with bloody nose at the middle-aged man in the eighth row of this obscure downtown warehouse theater who is drawn in by this violence unmistakably over the line. Daley has never set eyes on this actress before, yet is not entirely unacquainted with her either. Almost against his will, her life will invade his, her efforts to break free of those who have tried to control her, and worse.
As Becca and Daley begin the uncertain process of discovering one another, talking surprisingly, absorbingly, with a humor and uncanny closeness on the night streets of mid-1990s New York, they slowly unearth the buried trauma that has brought them together and may tear them apart.
"McElroy uses writing as a physicist might use an accelerator, to put us in touch with truths that, like atoms, are beyond the scope of everyday perception." Los Angeles Times
"McElroy's novels combine to be one of the most significant accomplishments in contemporary fiction." Chicago Tribune
Joseph McElroy was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930. He is the author of eight novels, including A Smuggler's Bible, Hind's Kidnap, Ancient History, Lookout Cartridge, Plus, Women and Men, and The Letter Left to Me, and a forthcoming volume of essays. He received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ingram Merrill Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Paris. He lives in New York City.
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Actress in the House
$26.95
A riveting new novel-a story of abuse, shock, and redemption-by the author hailed for his "intellectual reach, his passionately earnest sensibility, and his desire to reformulate American fiction." (Tom LeClair, The New Republic)
When Joseph McElroy's debut novel, A Smuggler's Bible, was first published in 1966, it was hailed in the New York Times as a novel of "daring, range, and brilliant subtlety to ignore it would be as shameful an act of blind self-deprivation as that which so many of us performed when The Recognitions and Under the Volcano were first published." Actress in the House is his first novel in twelve years, a provocative and imaginative work that explores the mysterious interaction of memory, abuse, love, and violence.
Struck in the face, the actress on stage is staggered but doesn't fall. She gazes into the audience, staring with bloody nose at the middle-aged man in the eighth row of this obscure downtown warehouse theater who is drawn in by this violence unmistakably over the line. Daley has never set eyes on this actress before, yet is not entirely unacquainted with her either. Almost against his will, her life will invade his, her efforts to break free of those who have tried to control her, and worse.
As Becca and Daley begin the uncertain process of discovering one another, talking surprisingly, absorbingly, with a humor and uncanny closeness on the night streets of mid-1990s New York, they slowly unearth the buried trauma that has brought them together and may tear them apart.
"McElroy uses writing as a physicist might use an accelerator, to put us in touch with truths that, like atoms, are beyond the scope of everyday perception." Los Angeles Times
"McElroy's novels combine to be one of the most significant accomplishments in contemporary fiction." Chicago Tribune
Joseph McElroy was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930. He is the author of eight novels, including A Smuggler's Bible, Hind's Kidnap, Ancient History, Lookout Cartridge, Plus, Women and Men, and The Letter Left to Me, and a forthcoming volume of essays. He received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ingram Merrill Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Paris. He lives in New York City.
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3-Volume Cased Set ( The Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Our Mutual Friend)
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The third set of titles in the essential collector’s Dickens are finally available. Learn More
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An international sensation and winner of the Russian Booker prize, Olga Slavnikova’s elegant dystopian novel, makes its long-awaited English language debut. Learn More
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Winner of the Russian Booker Prize, a darkly comic novel of Russia in the not-too-distant future. Learn More
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear (Paperback)
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The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear is playful enough for young adult readers, yet as intricate and engaging as any work of literary fiction; it has the plot of a novel and the spontaneity and humor of a vintage comic book.
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13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
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The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear is playful enough for young adult readers, yet as intricate and engaging as any work of literary fiction; it has the plot of a novel and the spontaneity and humor of a vintage comic book.
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