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In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.

This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s.

"... required reading for Canadians who want to understand the social disasters of the last decade". -- Sun (Vancouver) "...

Effie has had her fair share of lovers and husbands, including the Gillis cousins, who have been a source of as much guilt as joy.

Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. But when she takes a month-long leave of absence to go on an African vacation, she ends up facing unexpected consequences.

When a car accident leaves Casey Marshall in a comatose state, unable to see or communicate, she discovers that her friends aren't the people she thought them to be and that her accident might

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel.

"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economis

The narrator of this funny and poignant novel is searching for meaning, going back to his childhood, onto the web and off to New York to find it.