Penguin, January 2014. Trade Paperback. For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake and Ripper Street. A gripping and pulse-racing mystery thriller with a great detective double act. 'Splendid, enthralling, an exotic mystery that captivated me.' Bernard Cornwell Calcutta 1837. Young officer William Avery is tasked by his employers-the East India Company-with tracking..... More
Scribner, July 1995. Trade Paperback. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of "Tender is the Night, " "If you liked "The Great Gatsby, " for God's sake read this. "Gatsby" was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France..... More
Harper Teen, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous..... More
University of Chicago Press, November 2006. Trade Paperback. This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2003. Trade Paperback. In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God." Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a...... More
Vintage, July 1999. Trade Paperback. "John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and..... More
Minotaur Books, February 2011. Trade Paperback. Read the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video. From the #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny comes the second Armand Gamache mystery set in the stunning countryside of Quebec. Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel! Welcome to winter..... More
Vintage, August 1992. Trade Paperback. Philip Marlowe is constantly on the move with a case involving a war scarred drunk and his nymphomania wife. More
Anchor, May 2011. Trade Paperback. For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart--and boudoir. Soon, Hazie..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2020. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller - Now a Netflix Film "Rich, tragic. . . monumental. . . true-crime reporting at its best."-- Washington Post The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island..... More
Minotaur Books, June 2020. Trade Paperback. "A Better Man, with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre."--Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions.--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Catastrophic..... More
Algonquin Books, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz Jacob..... More
Vintage Books, January 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Ballantine Books, June 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time--with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix. "[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank."--The New York Times Book Review..... More
Little, Brown, July 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it..... More
Signet Classics, September 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So..... More
Tin House Books, September 2023. Paper Back. Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In..... More
New Directions, September 2023. Paper Back. A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre's most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a "masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance," it is the story of an intense friendship between "the Narrator" and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who..... More
Copper Canyon Press, May 2004. Paper Back. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility, so that each distinctive poem appears to be as fresh and bright and spontaneous as a good..... More
Anchor, October 1994. Trade Paperback. "A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison Nominated as one of..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, May 1995. Trade Paperback. The runaway bestseller and beloved book by Latin America's most popular author. "A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike."-- "Publishers Weekly" "A magical little volume." "--San Francisco Chronicle" "A wise and inspiring fable about the pilgrimage that life should be."--M. Scott Peck, M.D...... More
W W Norton & Co Ltd, December 1980. Trade Paperback. More
Princeton University Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered..... More
Dover Publications, June 1976. Trade Paperback. Lone of the most celebrated historical magistrates was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century A.D. This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to..... More
Harpercollins, June 1963. Trade Paperback. More
