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In this “wildly funny” (People) novel, an eccentric cast of characters navigates a world obsessed with health and longevity—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain.

Léa is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils.

Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life.

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he

"En réalité, sur certains points, Claire Marie me fait penser à ces canards qui ont l'air de glisser sur l'eau mais leurs pattes remuent sous la surface à toute allure.

Somewhere off the Southern State Parkway in Nassau County, NY is the town of "Waterfield" and in it is Waterfield High School, attended by, among others: Ro-Anne Sommers, crowned Little M

“Compelling . . . Gritty in its historical detail . . .

A masterfully crafted story of a talented American-born classical guitarist who develops into a renowned jazz musician, yet whose life tumbles into despair that can only be changed through Christ&#

For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from "one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century" (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker).

A funny and frank superhero story set in the world of Othergirl.

"Je propose une vie à vendre. À utiliser à votre guise. Homme, 27 ans. Confidentialité garantie.

"Dans le miroir de la salle de bains, elle se dévisage, et se voit telle que les amis d'Étienne vont la voir : une fille fade et gauche, une fille qu'il a choisie parce qu'elle

The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Ty

Prepare to have your conception of truth rocked to its very foundation. It is the year 2004. Violent crime is the number one political issue in America.

The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark