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Mukta is a ten-year-old lower-caste girl who is to become a temple prostitute. Attempting to escape her fate, she becomes a house servant for an upper-middle-class family in Mumbai.

Mehring, a rich industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects.

Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than eighty never-before-published poems.

A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, survives an explosion that kills his mother.

This collection features historical speeches given by those aspiring to win over voters and gain positions of power. This collection includes speeches by Franklin D.

British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.

Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970.

Prince Gaborn has defeated the forces arrayed against him before, but now there must be final confrontations, both on the field of battle and underground, where the Reavers dwell and the sorcerous

Fidelma McBride falls under the spell of a strange newcomer, Vlad, who moves into her small Irish village, but her world is shattered when Vlad is arrested for war crimes.

Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father.

Joyce Carol Oates chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.

In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war. Overnight, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value.

This wildly inventive novel tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkeni

Eons ago Sirens were exiled from the Mortal Realm but now vow to break free. Their mission: mate with human men to dilute their cursed bloodline, kill the man, and form a new race of Sirens.