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Lark Summerville’s life has few surprises—and that’s just how she likes it.

An apprentice assassin and an inquisitive linguist trade interwoven tales in order to enact revenge. Ukrainian author R. B.

Joyce Matthews raised her beloved younger brother, Gene, after the death of both their parents.

Lassé du silence de l'écriture, le narrateur s'improvise parolier et submerge de textes une star dont il admire la voix.

An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature." Winner of the 2021 PEN Translation Prize. Paris, Summer 2010.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. "A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius." —Juan Pablos Villalobos.

A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.

After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony.

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious.

In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student's desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship.

While chasing the woman of his dreams, he ran into the love of his life. Dev's life is a mess because he is reckless. Tara's is a mess because she's not.

My life as a Kane was lit in the indigos, aquamarines, and magentas of a home built on quiet faith and prayer. But Johnny changed all that.

This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction.

From Wanda Taylor, a delicious new novel about food, friendship and the power of poetry.

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005. Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction.