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On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man’s conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution.

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency—wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called “Doctor” for the first time.

National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film.

I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallo

Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution.

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.

Lesbian storyteller Ivan E.

In Close to Spider Man—which won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award—readers were introduced to the crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan Coyote.

An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help.

The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment.

With dreamlike stories and dark humor, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse.

Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman?

When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film—Angel of the Abyss—the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost.

The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . .