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Finalist for the World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award, and winner of the Aurora Award. Waters of Versailles is a historical fantasy about sex, magic, and plumbing. In 1738 France, soldier and courtier Sylvain de Guilherand enlists magical help to bring modern conveniences to the court of Louis XV. The innovation sparks a cold war in the hothouse palace environment as the nobles compete to outdo each other. Everyone wants what Sylvain has, but can he control the magical creature who makes it all possible?

An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind.

Léa est institutrice. Tous les mois de septembre, elle accueille la vingtaine d’enfants qu’elle accompagnera pour la prochaine année. Chaque fois, elle brandit le dictionnaire devant eux, leur expliquant que c’est comme un coffre au trésor de vingt-six lettres. Elle leur dit qu’ils ont là tout ce qu’il faut pour raconter le monde. Même ce qui ne se raconte pas. Même les secrets qu’ils n’osent dire à personne. Même le silence. Le secret, le silence, n’est-ce pas justement une grande part de l’héritage que Léa a reçu de sa Téta, sa grand-mère tant aimée, qui vient de mourir à cent sept ans ?

A New York Times–bestselling novel of love, money, and ambition among the employees of a white-shoe law firm. From a renowned chronicler of American high society, this is a novel set in the small but distinguished New York law firm of Shepard, Putney & Cox in the early 1970s. The son of a rich mother and a socially ambitious father, Beekman "Beeky" Ehninger makes a successful career for himself in the narrow upper echelons of his profession. For years, he has quietly guided his firm through numerous periods of transition—not to mention marital strife, forgery, and fraud.

Lose yourself in ancient civilizations in these three historical novellas by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked. Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the Great House’s incestuous society. But the Liar speaks a truth that transforms everything. A primitive matriarchal society. While mothers raise children in the bucolic Place of Women, Chimp is tormented by the Leopard Men in their brutal hunts, until he gains new wisdom. Imperial Rome.

Un homme rêve de retrouver une femme qu'il a aimée. Un maître espion cherche à recruter une taupe. Leurs chemins se croisent. Cela s'est passé au XXe siècle. Des tranchées à la chute du mur de Berlin, Hédi Kaddour croise les destins d'un journaliste français, d'un écrivain allemand, d'une cantatrice américaine, d'un maître espion berlinois, d'une certaine taupe française... et entremêle avec maestria politique, vie intellectuelle et artistique, guerres et manœuvres diplomatiques.

“[A] certifiable masterpiece” from the acclaimed chronicler of New York City’s old money elite (The New York Observer). Widely considered Louis Auchincloss’s greatest novel, The Rector of Justin is an astute dissection of the social mores of the Northeast’s privileged establishment. The story centers on Rev. Frank Prescott, the charismatic founder and rector of a prestigious Episcopal school for boys. With laser-sharp insight, Auchincloss delivers a prismatic portrait of this commanding and complicated man through the eyes of those who knew—or thought they knew—him best.

"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency." —Michael Porter, *The New York Times*. A precocious Vietnamese high school student—known as the pupil with "the iron blouse"—in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on "Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism," she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany.

The marriage of Dexter and Rosalie Fairchild-a relationship reflecting the security and privilege of their upper-class New York City lives-is disrupted by personal and political tensions arising from the Civil War.

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes. Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the café, at the office, in his love affairs. He is intimate but reserved; conversational but careful; reflective but determined. As he becomes increasingly and chillingly alienated from other people, the reader is drawn into complicit acquiescence.