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In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel.

When a car accident leaves Casey Marshall in a comatose state, unable to see or communicate, she discovers that her friends aren't the people she thought them to be and that her accident might not have been an accident after all.

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.

Author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life. Everything--from his personal relationships to his professional pursuits to his finances--seems to be failing miserably. Then Jesper happens across a group of young immigrant girls-nd their stories of hardship and perseverance transform his outlook on life.

At 17, Molly Fisk is unable to enjoy the preoccupations of other girls her age. Crippled by anxiety, Molly hides from life in the small-town museum she runs with her mother. Nurturing vague hopes of one day overcoming her fears and experiencing the great world beyond, Molly is startled by the appearance of a woman she befriended six years before--a woman who may hold the key to Molly becoming whole.

In a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father enact a drama that seems born of the land itself.