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In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them.

Bestselling author Linda Fairstein, who "makes legal issues more exciting than any high-speed chase" (The New York Times), presents these thrilling stories of lawyers under pressure, criminals faci

A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world.

In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.

Sourland- sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul'shows us an author work-ing at the height of her powers.

In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest--Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne--and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their

Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against nine cunning adversaries in nine tales of murder, deception, terror, disappearance, and suspense.

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner.

Twenty Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

A collection of short stories by the acclaimed science fiction writer.

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a m

A fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland.

Men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.

"There's no way not to suffer.