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From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.

Sourland- sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul'shows us an author work-ing at the height of her powers.

In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest--Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne--and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their

Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against nine cunning adversaries in nine tales of murder, deception, terror, disappearance, and suspense.

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner.

Twenty Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use

A collection of short stories by the acclaimed science fiction writer.

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a m

The poems in this book brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, these verses give voice to our deepest intuitions.

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC.

A fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland.

Men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.

"There's no way not to suffer.

Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory--a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entir