Literature & Fiction

Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When he goes to stay at a seaside town, his task is to comfort a bereaved friend. Vinny is prepared for a solemn few...

Michael Moritz And Barrett Seaman. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [331]-332.Categories: Literature & Fiction Humor & SatireSatire

"Nair writes big, brave descriptions of one brutal murder after the next, relentlessly describing each death even as sub-inspector Santosh loses his breakf...

Returning from Vietnam, Kurt Strom becomes involved in an affair with Nick, a married state trooperCategories: Literature & Fiction Genre FictionLGBTQ+ ...

From the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize.It is 1975 in Istanbul. Kemal, thirty, from...

Vic Wilcox, the managing director of a struggling engineering firm, is thrown together with leftist feminist professor Robyn Penrose, leading to clashes ove...

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but...

Set in Greece in the sixth century B.C., an age of tyrants, wars with the Persians, and great artistic achievement, Mary Renault's historical narrative focu...

Killarney Clary's spare and lucid prose poems reduce the contemporary landscape to its essences and essentials, revealing the ways in which it is broken, un...

on The Day Her Daughter Leaves For College, Anne Colwater's Husband Of Twenty Years Announces He Wants A Divorce. Her Roles Of Wife And Mother Suddenly Gon...

“A wonderful love story . . . Buchanan weaves Niagara Falls’ history and her storytelling together masterfully.”—Elle 1915. Niagara Falls. The dawn of...

"A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed; and on every score, this is a first-rate job of story-telling." — Philadelphia Inquirer Shel...

A sweeping novel of Britain's last years of rule in India depicts the struggles of Barbara Batchelor, a retired superintendent of Protestant missionary scho...

Widely Regarded As The World's First Modern Novel, And One Of The Funniest And Most Tragic Books Ever Written, Don Quixote Chronicles The Famous Picaresque ...

Ganga, a young girl, grows up carefree in the midst of her loving family in an old and beautiful house nestled in the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka. He...

In A Country Teetering On The Brink Of Civil War, Two Young People Meet--sensual, Fiercely Independent Nadia And Gentle, Restrained Saeed. They Embark On A ...

The Little, Brown Handbook provides reliable and thorough coverage of handbook basics--the writing process, grammar and usage, research and documentation--...

A new adventure begins on Harmony… With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally unique—and will take you on a thri...

Book by Bloch, RobertCategories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & SuspenseSuspense

Drawing from his own experiences as a conservative, Crawford shows that the New Right is, in reality, anticonservative and reveals its damaging effect on th...

“A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience.”—Los Angeles TimesHere in one volume are the ...

The Art Of Mulan Was Only Jeff Kurtti's Fourth Published Work, And One Of Which He Remains Enormously Proud. He Is Honored To See This Important And Signifi...

Attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.Categories: Science & Math TechnologyHistory of Technology

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 1 Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO T...

Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on fi...

The adventures of retired Army Ranger John “Doc” Holliday and his quest to uncover the secrets of the Templars continue to thrill in this novel from Ne...

From one of Sweden’s most astute cultural critics, a razor-sharp comedy of the progress and ruin of the industrial welfare state, told through the story o...

Noah Calhoun, Recently Returned From World War Ii In 1946, Buys An Old Plantation Home In Rural North Carolina, Where He Contents Himself With Memories Of H...

First Publication In English Of What Has Been Described As The Culmination Of The Career Of This Great German Novelist, A Committed Activist And Writer Who ...

This is a great American novel, should be required reading.Categories: Literature & FictionLiterary

brothers Oren And Josh Disappear Into The Woods. Only Oren Comes Out. Twenty Years Later, The Mystery Of What Happened To Josh Is Going To Be Exposed, And...

jaclyn Wilde Is A Wedding Planner Who Loves Her Job—usually. But Helping Carrie Edwards With Her Big Day Has Been An Unrelenting Nightmare. Carrie Is A Br...

The author of the greatest American immigrant novel, Call It Sleep, returns with this posthumous work. The Barnes & Noble Review For complicated reaso...

A new edition in full colour, reproducing the original illustrations from 1946. Endorsed by Mya-Rose Craig, aka Birdgirl: 'a beautifully illustrated story o...

in This Magnificent Collection Of Stories, Rush Produces Indelible Portraits Of Euro-american Ex-patriates At Loose Ends In The Black African Republic Of B...

The greatly anticipated new novel by Norman Rush—whose first novel, Mating, won the National Book Award and was everywhere acclaimed—is his richest work...

New From Ian Mcewan, Booker Prize Winner And International Bestselling Author Of Atonement And The Children Act Machines Like Me Occurs In An Alternative 19...

A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventf...

A new edition of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Great American novel, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Adam Simps...

This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems_the city of Vilna, ...

By Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Translated From The Yiddish By A.h. Gross. Originally Published: New York : Knopf, 1950.Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy...

pat Conroy Called Dorothea Benton Frank's Debut, Sullivan's Island, Hilarious And Wise, While Anne Rivers Siddons Declared That It Roars With Life. Here, F...

How Did Advertising Come To Seem Ordinary And Even Natural To Turn-of-the-century Magazine Readers? The Adman In The Parlor Explores Readers' Interactions W...

The end where it all began! Return to one of the most storied periods in comics, and discover what led to the destruction of Superman’s home planet!\Krypt...

THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH "The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian C...

Glance Around. Imagine That All The Scenery Beyond These Words Isn't Real, Nor Are They. Instead, Imagine That You're Actually Locked Up In A Jail Cell, And...

Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and ...

Widely Known As The Anthology That Best Unites Tradition With Innovation, The American Tradition In Literature Is Proud To Enter Its Fifth Decade Of Leaders...