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There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission: find a way into Cuba and kill Castro.

When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog.

Set up for a murder by the NYPD, Royal Navy intelligence operative David Trevellyan must act alone to clear his name.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels and his own fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880s

A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young businessman are all helplessly beguiled by the same coed.

A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before.

An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love when a mathematics teacher, stirred by Shakespeare's play, falls for a young beauty. 

A false engagement notice put in the paper as an act of malice manages to change the lives of many of the citizens of Salterton. Winner of the Leacock Award for humor.

An absorbing account of Monica Gall's education in London as a singer and as a human being, this novel is comic in the true sense, vivid and frequently moving.

When the Cornish Foundation decides to fund the production of an opera entitled Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold, the participants find their lives begin to resemble the opera's plot.

An ancient prophecy divides two sisters--one good, one evil. Who will prevail?

Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from place to place, seeking a living.

When young Uldolf discovers an injured and frightened young woman in the woods, he brings her to live with his adoptive family.

Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life.