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Set in a small Mennonite community in Pennsylvania in 1896, this novel depicts the reaction of the "plain people" to various modern encroachments.

How wonderful, that you could cross the ocean and still find yourself looking at mothers and children walking the streets, peering into store windows, and catching buses to get home in time for din

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots First, Black Is My Favorite Color, Still Life, The Death of Me, A Choice of Profession, Life Is Better Than Death, The Jewbird,

When four college friends graduated from the University of Northwest Oregon, their lives stretched before them, full of promise and vows to stay connected.

From award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders comes an original space opera short story "If You Take My Meaning." As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to

From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.

True, lasting recovery requires us to create and maintain inner peace. For many, it springs from a practice of mindfulness; for others, from the rituals of religion.

'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death...' Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate i

An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003. A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African war. Sierra Leone is the world’s most war-ravaged country.

This masterful translation of a recent Bolivian novel, En el pais del silencio, transports us to a mysterious, silent, and unfamiliar land where astonishing truths are placed within our grasp.

Vous ne rentrez pas dans le moule ? Ils sauront vous broyer. Inexorables, les conséquences des mauvais choix d’un père. Inexorable, le combat d’une mère pour protéger son fils.

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and science fiction of his generation.

"Gripping and breathless, Into the Sublime is equal parts terrifying, claustrophobic, psychological, and cunning." —Wendy Heard, author of She's Too Pretty to Burn and Dead End Girls

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin.