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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history’s most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence.

Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments — one called the

'I was pulled into simple living before I knew what it was. It crept up on me using the smallest of steps and didn't reveal its true beauty and real power until I was totally hooked.

This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural sy

Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it—forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years.

First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world—part myth, part legend, and part history.

“Includes some of Lam’s most memorable writings, about cuisine, self-esteem, sex and kung fu, all seen from a two-hemisphere perspective.” —SFGate East Eats West shines new light on the bridges and

Gladiator meets 1984 in this near-future thriller featuring timeslips, ancient magic, and a disturbingly plausible dystopian Britain...

A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf.

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoff

« Chère Véronique, Ton coup de téléphone m’a enchantée. Figure-toi que je rentrais juste à 5h30 du matin, sur la pointe des pieds lorsque le téléphone a sonné.

Biting and gentle, hard-edged and hopeful… a beautiful fable of love and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption.

"Louisa rapporte ce qu'elle a retenu d'un tutoriel : les dépressifs d'aujourd'hui sont les gagnants de demain. Je suis pas dépressif.

La pâle et touchante Marie-Louise finit ses jours en marge du monde des gens dits « normaux ».

Gene Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim.