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An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help.

The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment.

Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman?

When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film—Angel of the Abyss—the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost.

The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . .

"Emotionally resonant and deeply characterized." —School Library Journal (starred review) From the author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone comes a stunning contemporary novel, pe

A mother recounts her interactions with the US government as she struggled to bring home her abducted daughters from Saudi Arabia.

Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and

Au lieu d’aménager la maison qu’il vient juste de faire construire, le narrateur de Pas d’inquiétude va être contraint de prendre un long congé pour rester près de son fils malade et s’installe ave

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of *Passing for Thin*, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim.

Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice.

"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." - Chicago Tribune. Christian G.

A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award.

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of SF" by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy award

“Much will be made—and rightly so—of the eloquent commentary [Lam’s] essays provide on Vietnam and the Vietnamese . . .