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With war and violence flaring all over the world, many of us are left feeling vulnerable and utterly helpless.

The essays and reportage in 'How to Breathe Underwater' offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian governmen

Norman Levine was a permanent outsider, by temperament and by choice as Polish born immigrant, as resident alien, as writer, as Jew and he observed life from the margins with an unsentimental eye.

'So,' she says. 'Who died tonight?' Sam Samson, meet Samantha. Sam's a novelist: his dad has Alzheimer's, his mother died of stroke, his wife was killed seventeen months ago in a car crash.

In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all - remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry based

"Dawdler." "Layabout." "Shit-heel." "Loser." For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work h

David Constantine's short fiction is a revelation.

Ellie Lucan's about as far as she can get from the screwed-up teenager she used to be.

Presents the story of the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.

In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction.

A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot.

A novel about a hypnotherapist who falls in love with a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him

Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River.

For decades Bruce Jay Friedman has charmed the glitziest industries of American golden-age culture. He's been in publishing. He's been in theater. He's been in film.