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Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.

Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity.

A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep.

Follows the individual odysseys of fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura after he runs away from his home and overbearing father, and Nakata, an elderly finder of lost cats fleeing a gruesome murder, as th

A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world.

In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.

Toru Watanabe, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic d

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel'a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan'from the award-winning, intern

In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write.

First published in 1963, James A. Michener's gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever.

The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.

The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state.

When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry-from the brilliance and br

"Stupendous...' novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute."'Elizabeth Gilbert The be

Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.