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Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story.

The novelization of the incredible final episode of the most successful syndicated television program of all time.

"An extraordinary book.

New York, at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X.

The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment.

It is the mid-seventies, and Shaila has returned to Bombay for her father's sixtieth birthday party.

On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction.

In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments.

Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up.

The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response-a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign t

Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so.

Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a ve

From the international bestselling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is try