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A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune.

Sam Selvon's Moses Ascending depicts West Indian immigration in England.

Printemps 1945. La guerre touche à sa fin.

*Moving On* anticipates McMurtry's *Terms of Endearment* and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas.

'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John Updike.

"Ce sont les décisions anodines, celles qui se glissent dans le quotidien sans qu'on les remarque. Ce sont elles qui nous tuent." 1976. C'est l'été sur l'Avenue.

This extraordinary novel, winner of a 1990 American Book Award, recounts the story of two women—Mulberry and Peach—who are really one.

"This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page." -Southern Living. Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world-always populated by madly heroic misfits.

Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black, before wowing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin, and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Dia

My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann.

As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin “an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game” (Kirkus Reviews).

Next to Nature, Art is the fourth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.

"Ça veut dire quoi grandir ? Ça veut dire qu’un jour on s’ennuie. On n’a pas envie d’être là, on a envie d’être nulle part, ni de rentrer à la maison, ni d’aller chez notre père.

The island of Sinos. Strategically positioned between Greece and Turkey, this small Mediterranean isle is a relic of the past—an old Turkish stronghold fortified by the Nazis during World War II.

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price — one of America's most respected men of letters — adds Noble Norfleet t