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Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile.

In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing.

ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the

Follow young Oliver’s rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history.' Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of mac

The sequel to Florian's Gate and The Amber Room.

A delightful parable of unexpected encounters, as a heavenly visitor is sent to bring hope to the City of Brotherly Love.

Peggy comme un feu roulant. Peggy qui brûle tous ceux qu’elle touche.

A story about a nineteenth-century woman's search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, Work is at once Alcott's exploration of her personal challenges and a socia

J’ai écrit ce livre pour un inconnu. Le jeune qui a surgi devant moi, il y a quelques semaines, à une séance de signature de L’Enfant des Sept Mers.

In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace.

A New York Times–bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.

Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure.