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The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Ty

The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.

On a cold bright day, fifteen-year-old Adriana Dunea wakes up to find that her world has transformed overnight.

Paris, 1942. Constantin von Meck, metteur en scène allemand qui a fait l'essentiel de sa carrière à Hollywood, tourne un film pour la U.F.A.

ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history.' Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of mac

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace.

A New York Times–bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.

As the Hughes family celebrate bonfire night, a terrible accident leaves the garden shed in flames - and father and grandfather Thomas trapped inside.

Dr. Rosalind Werner is at the forefront of a groundbreaking new water technology—if only she can get support for her work.

Eloise Drake's prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she's finally put behind her—or so she thinks.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in ea

As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Her children are almost grown, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections.