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An "obsessive, mystical, terrifying" exploration of the shadowy world of the anesthetized mind—and what it can teach us about the nature of memory and consciousness (*New Yorker*).

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America.

"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony." - Kirkus Reviews. The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions.

A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes.

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning "absolute master of 'Western' prose," comes McMurtry's electrifying take on the classic tale of Billy the Kid, the teenage outl

"Vêtue d'un pyjama en satin écru, la jeune femme repose dans une baignoire remplie, en position de fœtus inversé.

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life the vibrant—and violent—society of fifteenth-century Florence.

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life.

In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ.

Que ce soit grâce à sa bonne étoile ou à un mauvais assassin, le juge Crowdy Lobbett de New York est toujours en vie. On ne peut pas en dire autant des quatre hommes décédés à sa place.

"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent." —Liz Smith. She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.

« Des vêtements à peine écartés, des ventres et des reins maladroitement caressés. Des intentions plus que des actes.

In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan.

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind h

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the "Next Detroit"—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century.