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Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the world’s most widely read and discussed authors.

Described by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti as, "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination," this short fable about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a

When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D.

In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital...

In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him.

The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consci

A surveyor is lost in a labyrinth in this 1926 German novel, reflecting the author's concern with man's inability to assert himself in the face of bureaucracy.

Set in the summertime splendor of 1913 England, this seventh tale finds Beatrix eager to marry her fiancé, solicitor William Heelis.

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While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end.

After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter.

The high school principal asks China Bayles to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships.

When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help.

Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.