Sustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the p......
PopCo tells the story of Alice Butler-a subversively smart girl in our commercial-soaked world who grows from recluse orphan to burgeoning vigilante, ......
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George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illumin......
From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strange man who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty-third floor, she is determined to befriend h......
In this contemporary story with universal resonance, Edna O'Brien delves deep into the intense relationship that exists between a mother and daughter ......
Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting ......
Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hit......
Coy is a sailor without a ship.Tanger Soto is a woman with an obsession to find the Dei Gloria, a ship sunk during the seventeenth century, and El Pil......
The editors of the best-selling rediscovered Tolkien novel Roverandom present an expanded fiftieth anniversary edition of Tolkien's beloved classic Fa......
A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reprod......
"The Wild Marsh "is Rick Bass's most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his ......
Hanta rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls "our very best writer today," celebr......
"You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you really loved me."Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic col......
George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialize in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole......
We've seen them in a Dateline story or an Oprah feature: homes that have become improbable repositories of - literally - tons of stuff. The camera cre......
Anyone who came under the spell of Olive Ann Burns's classic novel Cold Sassy Tree will delight in Leaving Cold Sassy, which returns to the story of t......
Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family disappeared there. And now Constance Langton h......
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The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the ......
