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"Ce sont les décisions anodines, celles qui se glissent dans le quotidien sans qu'on les remarque. Ce sont elles qui nous tuent." 1976. C'est l'été sur l'Avenue.

Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina.

This extraordinary novel, winner of a 1990 American Book Award, recounts the story of two women—Mulberry and Peach—who are really one.

"This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page." -Southern Living. Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world-always populated by madly heroic misfits.

A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a "warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of readers" and Publishers Weekly says is "a pra

Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black, before wowing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin, and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Dia

My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann.

As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin “an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game” (Kirkus Reviews).

An in-depth exploration of how a transportation company created a vision for a burgeoning nation and played a leading role in driving immigration to the Canadian West.

Next to Nature, Art is the fourth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.

"Ça veut dire quoi grandir ? Ça veut dire qu’un jour on s’ennuie. On n’a pas envie d’être là, on a envie d’être nulle part, ni de rentrer à la maison, ni d’aller chez notre père.

The island of Sinos. Strategically positioned between Greece and Turkey, this small Mediterranean isle is a relic of the past—an old Turkish stronghold fortified by the Nazis during World War II.

A stolen sign, "No Jews Live Here," kept John Lorinc's Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.

"You don't have to run fast to be a real runner!" John Bingham, "the patron saint of the back of the pack," commands "The Penguin Brigade"-those thousands of dedi

Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai's fabled career, some never before seen in English. "No one really understands how we suffer.