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A New York Times Notable Book. "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy." -New York Times Book Review.

On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London’s Thames River and began starving himself.

Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer.

One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (

This classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistic, fiercely honest young man tries to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with the realities of America of the 1940s.

Like Francis Prescott in The Rector of Justin, Guy Prime enjoyed the distinction of having become a legend in his lifetime. But in Guy's case, the legend is one of betrayal and infamy.

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world.

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan.

Dans une petite maison bordant la ligne TGV entre Lausanne et Vallorbe, une femme a été assassinée. Près de Châtel-Saint-Denis, un garçon disparaît durant sa leçon d'équitation.

"A novel of raw human longing... His stripped-down prose focuses on the deeply personal with precision and insight...

Swashbuckling historical fiction from the author of I, Claudius. “A cleverly balanced mixture of spice, fact, humor and adventure on and off the high seas” (Kirkus Reviews).

This third installment in the Chronicles of Arundel is set during the War of 1812.

One Last Goodbye. One Last Adventure. Pearly Laurel is devastated by the death of her beloved husband of thirty-five years.

South of the Dead Sea, between Palestine and Jordan, nestles Petra and the Wadi Musa.

In a stunning work of feminist historical fiction for readers who loved Dawn Tripp's Georgia and Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light, Jude Berman brings painter Angelica Kauffman to life.