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Yuri Trifonov
Young Irelanders (Paperback)
Young Irelanders
Young Henry of Navarre
The Yellow Emperor's Cure
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Year of the Horse
Y2K
Worlds Apart (Paperback)
Worlds Apart
The Wooden Horse (Paperback)
The Wooden Horse
Wonder of the World
The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
The Wit and Wisdom of Freddy and His Friends
Wishing My Father Well: (Paperback)
Wishing My Father Well:
Windward Passage
Windfall (Paperback)
Windfall
Wilson:
Will (Paperback)
Will
Wild Women
A Wild Ride through the Night
Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
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)
The White Rock
The White Mare (Paperback)
The White Mare
Where the Rainbow Ends (Paperback)
When You Lunch with the Emperor (Paperback)
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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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 Autumn Leaves
Weymouth Sands (Paperback)
The Wentworths (Paperback)
The Wentworths
The Warsaw Anagrams
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
The Warrior Prophet (Paperback)
The Warrior Prophet
The Walking Dead
The Voyage of the Short Serpent (Paperback)
The Voyage of the Short Serpent
The Voyage Home (Paperback)
The Voyage Home
The Vows of Silence (Paperback)
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
The Visiting Professor
Vicious Circle
The Very Rich Hours of Count Von Stauffenberg (Paperback)
The Very Rich Hours of Count Von Stauffenberg
Vermeer's Milkmaid
Venus Preserved (Paperback)
Venus Preserved
The Various Haunts of Men (Paperback)
The Various Haunts of Men
The Unreasoning Mask
The Unknown Soldier (Paperback)
The Unknown Soldier
The Universe and Other Fictions (Paperback)
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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Uncle Peretz Takes Off (Paperback)
Uncle Peretz Takes Off
Ultramarine
Twentysomething
True Grit
True Grit
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.
“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
Triomf (Paperback)
Triomf
Traveler's Calendar
A Traitor's Kiss (Paperback)
A Traitor's Kiss
Top of My Lungs (Paperback)
Top of My Lungs
Tokyo Tango
To the Hermitage (Paperback)
To the Hermitage
Titus Awakes
Three Novellas
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.
Learn MoreThe Thousandfold Thought (Paperback)
The Thousandfold Thought
The Life and Times of Homer Sincere Whose Amazing Adventures are Documented by His True and Trusted Friend Rigby Canfield
The Adventures of Sally
The Tears of Autumn (Paperback)
The Tears of Autumn
Tales from the Mabinogion (Paperback)
Tales from the Mabinogion
Sweet Smell of Success
The Sunday Books
The Stream
The Stranger's Woes
The Stranger's Woes
The Stranger
Strait Is the Gate
The Story of Freginald
The Stones of Summer
The Stonehenge Legacy
The Stonehenge Legacy
Stone Heart (Paperback)
Stone Heart
Starting from Sleep
Sporting with Amaryllis
The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father (Paperback)
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The Sorrow of Belgium
Something Dangerous (Paperback)
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Something Dangerous
A Slice of Life (Paperback)
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A Slice of Life
Slaves of the Shinar
Sister Teresa (Paperback)
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Sister Teresa
A Simple Act of Violence
A Simple Act of Violence
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
Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man
The Short Life and Happy Times of Shmoo
Shelley's Heart (Paperback)
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
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Shakespeare's Sonnets
A new and accessible presentation of Shakespeare's sublime lyrics with a new commentary for the contemporary reader.
Learn MoreThe Shakespeare Miscellany
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
Selected Poems of C. N. Bialik
The Seducer
Secret Lovers
The Secret Lovers
The Secret Laboratory Journal of Doctor Victor Frankenstein (Paperback)
The Secret Laboratory Journal of Doctor Victor Frankenstein
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte (Paperback)
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Second Sight (Paperback)
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Second Sight
Scary Kisses
Savage Nights (Paperback)
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Saint Fire (Paperback)
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Saint Fire
The Sabre's Edge
Rumo (Paperback)
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Rumo
Rumi: The Fire of Love
Rumi (Paperback)
The Royal Physician's Visit
The Root Worker
The Risk of Darkness
Right and Left
Rifling Paradise
Riders to Cibola
The Republic of Vengeance (Paperback)
At the end of the third century BC, as Republican Rome’s long war with Carthage in Africa draws to a close, a new danger is arising in the East. The ruthless and ambitious King of Macedon, Philip the Fifth, is moving against the independent city-states of Greece and threatening Rome itself.
In the tradition of Mary Renault, Stephen Pressfield, and Robert Graves, The Republic of Vengeance is a remarkable, beautifully written novel of love, loss, and redemption. More than a historical adventure, it explores timeless questions of freedom, right, and duty. Learn More
The Republic of Vengeance
Repeat After Me
Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: (Paperback)
Rainey's Lament
Radiant Days, Haunted Nights
A Quiet Belief in Angels (Paperback)
A Quiet Belief in Angels
A Question of Identity
Pushkin Threefold
Psycho
Private Midnight
The Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time
A Prefect's Uncle
Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh
Porius (Paperback)
Porius
Point Dume (Paperback)
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.
“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
“Gritty and hard-hitting with some well-placed social commentary.”--OC Metro
“Arnoldi knows how to make readers care about her protagonists. Her well-researched, well-written novel will appeal to fans of T.C. Boyle and Cormac McCarthy as well as to readers who mourn the destruction of the environment.”--Library Journal Learn More
Point Dume
Chemical Pink and The Wentworths, a timely tale of
pot farms, surf culture, and fire.. Learn More
Plum Sauce
Plugged
The Pied Piper's Poison (Paperback)
The Pied Piper's Poison
The Pickwick Papers
The Petty Demon
Petroleum Man (Paperback)
Petroleum Man
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake Peake's Progress
Past Continuous
The Paris Correspondent
Paradise Salvage
Paradise Hotel (Paperback)
Owen Glendower
An Outrageous Affair (Paperback)
An Outrageous Affair
Our Mutual Friend
The Once and Future Spy
On the Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer
The Old Religion
The Old Reliable
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Old Boys
Notes on the Cuff
Not Untrue & Not Unkind
Non-Stop
Noise of Change
Noir
Noir
No Angel (Paperback)
A Night of Serious Drinking
Night and Horses and the Desert:
My Name Is Sei Shonagon
My Head Was a Sledgehammer (Paperback)
My Companions in the Bleak House
The Music Teacher
Murder in Montparnasse: (Paperback)
Murder in Montparnasse:
Mr. Pye (Paperback)
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
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell (Paperback)
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell
Mount Analogue
Moscow Racetrack
Moscow Memoirs
The Mortdecai Trilogy
Mortal Suns
The Moon Pool
Monumental Propaganda
Moments Captured
Mike at Wrykyn
The Miernik Dossier (Paperback)
The Miernik Dossier
Masters of Atlantis
The Master Blaster
The Man with Two Left Feet
The Man With Two Arms (Paperback)
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.
“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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The Man with Two Arms
The Man Who Took a Bite Out of His Wife (Paperback)
The Man Who Took a Bite Out of His Wife
The Man Who Never Returned
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
The Man Who Cried I Am
The Man Upstairs
The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories never before published in the United States.
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The Man in the Picture
The Maharajah's Box
The Mabinogion Tetralogy
Lydie Breeze
Love in the Days of Rage
Love Among the Chickens
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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Lookout Cartridge
The Long Voyage
Lion of the Sun
The Limits of Vision
Lewi's Journey (Paperback)
Lewi's Journey
Lethal Injection
Legends
Lee
Le Contre-Ciel
The Late Great Creature
The Last Supper (Paperback)
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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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
Learn MoreThe Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
Knife Music
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A Killer's Essence
Kara Kush
Julius Winsome (Paperback)
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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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.
Learn MoreThe Judging Eye
The James Family
Islandia
The Island of Second Sight
Into Temptation (Paperback)
The Indiscretions of Archie
In the Wilderness
In the Stacks
In the Last Blue
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
Ice in the Bedroom
Hunters and Gatherers (Paperback)
Hour of the Cat
Honey West: This Girl for Hire
Honey West: Kiss for A Killer
The Heretic (Paperback)
The Heretic
Henry James
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald (Paperback)
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald
The Head of Kay's
Hash (Paperback)
Hash
Harry Gold (Paperback)
Harry Gold
Green Henry
Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult (Paperback)
Gone Tomorrow (Paperback)
The Girl in Blue
"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
Getting Away with Murder (Paperback)
The German Wedding
A Gentleman of Leisure
Gascoyne
The Garden of Reading
The Galosh (Paperback)
The Galosh
The Full Catastrophe
Frozen Assets
From Away (Paperback)
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
Freddy the Politician (Paperback)
Freddy the Pilot
Freddy the Detective (Paperback)
Freddy and the Space Ship (Paperback)
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)
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
Freddy and the Bean Home News (Paperback)
Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars
The Foundation Pit
Forbidden Places
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First Gray, Then White, Then Blue (Paperback)
Fire in the East
Fear Itself
Exquisite Corpse
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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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.
“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
Envy
Enlightenment (Paperback)
Enlightenment
Endless Things
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
Eddie and the Cruisers
Dragon's Eye (Paperback)
Dragon's Eye
The Double
Dostoevsky Letters Volume 5 1878-1881
Dostoevsky Letters Volume 4 1872-1877
Dostoevsky Letters Volume 3 1868-1871
Don Quixote's Delusions
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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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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Deliverance from Evil
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.
"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
The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
The Debriefing
Dead and Buried (Paperback)
Dead and Buried
Dawn Stag (Paperback)
Dawn Stag
Daughter of Providence
Daughter of Providence
The Darkroom of Damocles (Paperback)
The Darkroom of Damocles
The Darkness That Comes Before (Paperback)
Dark Companion (Paperback)
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
Daniel Stein, Interpreter
A Dangerous Liaison (Paperback)
The Damned Don't Die
Daemonomania
The Cuban Prospect (Paperback)
The Cuban Prospect
Critical Prose and Letters
Creation
Courting Shadows (Paperback)
Courting Shadows
The Cooperman Variations
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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Christopher's Ghosts (Paperback)
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Cast Not the Day (Paperback)
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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A Captive Spirit
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
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Bliss, Remembered (Paperback)
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
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Beta Male (Paperback)
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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Bedlam Burning (Paperback)
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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.
“[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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The Ballad of Johnny Sosa (Paperback)
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.
Learn MoreThe Ballad of Johnny Sosa
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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As High as the Scooter Can Fly
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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All Saints' Day
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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Actress in the House (Paperback)
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.
Learn MoreActress in the House
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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2017
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear (Paperback)
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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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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