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Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks

A novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, by Peter Stamm, finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.

Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe—it was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries of Aristotle, Galileo, C

Mormama is a riveting supernatural, southern gothic tale from Kit Reed, the author of Where. 2018 Locus Award Finalist for Best Horror. Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List.

A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune.

Sam Selvon's Moses Ascending depicts West Indian immigration in England.

Printemps 1945. La guerre touche à sa fin.

*Moving On* anticipates McMurtry's *Terms of Endearment* and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas.

'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John Updike.

"Ce sont les décisions anodines, celles qui se glissent dans le quotidien sans qu'on les remarque. Ce sont elles qui nous tuent." 1976. C'est l'été sur l'Avenue.

Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina.

This extraordinary novel, winner of a 1990 American Book Award, recounts the story of two women—Mulberry and Peach—who are really one.

"This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page." -Southern Living. Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world-always populated by madly heroic misfits.

A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a "warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of readers" and Publishers Weekly says is "a pra

Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black, before wowing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin, and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Dia