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In Lansens's second novel, readers come to know Rose and Ruby, 29-year-old conjoined twins. When one of the girls decides to write her autobiography, the di...

Book by Roy, ArundhatiCategories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in...

Michel Foucault ; Translated From The French By Robert Hurley. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1985. Includes Bibliographical Refe...

The Story Of A Young Girl Growing Up In The Hispanic Quarter Of Chicago. Capturing Her Thoughts And Emotions In Poems And Stories, She Is Able To Rise Above...

Superb novel deals with the consequences of amoral hedonism in the story of a man who tries to rise above good and evil and give free rein to his passions. ...

In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in â...

The Second Volume In The Life Of Literary Giant Saul Bellow, Vividly Capturing A Personal Life That Was Always Tumultuous And Career That Never Ceased Being...

more From Our Friend Forster.Categories: Literature & Fiction Humor & SatireSatire

From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays borne of a lifeti...

The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yem...

This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. Categories: Literature & Fiction Genre Ficti...

When Two Boys--john William Barry And Neil Countryman-- Meet In 1972 At Age Sixteen, They're Brought Together By What They Have In Common: A Fierce Intensit...

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adul...

An Oprah.com "Must-Read" BookAfter having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the ...

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brough...

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fe...

National Bestseller Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a priv...

alice Munro, Who Received The National Book Critics Circle Award For Her Latest Collection Of Stories, the Love Of A Good Woman, Is Widely Acknowledged As...

Once more the "unconventional" Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant...

This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe an...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

Schoolboy Michael Berg, 15, Meets An Older Woman And They Have An Affair, Which She Breaks Off And Disappears. Seven Years Later Berg, Now A Law Student Att...

set In Postwar Germany, the Reader Is A Provocative, Morally Challenging, And Deeply Moving Novel About A Young Boy's Erotic Awakening In A Clandestine Lov...

set In Postwar Germany, the Reader Is A Provocative, Morally Challenging, And Deeply Moving Novel About A Young Boy's Erotic Awakening In A Clandestine Lov...

Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleido...

THE SHADOWS IN THE STREETCategories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense MysteryPolice Procedurals

The official movie tie-in edition to Oliver Stone’s major motion picture, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Edward Snowden is one of the most extraordinary ...

richard Ford Won The Pulitzer Prize And The Pen/faulkner Award For His Modern Classic Independence Day. In This First Volume Of His Frank Bascombe Trilogy...

When a woman’s body is found at the foot of a cliff near the idyllic French town of St. Denis, chief of police Bruno Courrèges suspects a connection to t...

“The first ten years of my life I was not black.” Thus begins this startlingly eloquent and beautiful tale based on the true story of Kwasi Boachi, a 19th-...

A new collection of stories by Alice Munro is always a major event. This new collection — her most personal to date — is no exception. Alice Munro’s...

Spine creased, page edges tanned. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.Categories: Literature & FictionHistorical Fiction

In this feverishly beautiful novel—originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in i...

In The Wives of Bath, Susan Swan penetrates the world of a girls' boarding school and tells a story - at once shocking and wickedly funny - that encompasses...

Can you go a little faster? Can you run? Long ago, at a time in history that never happened, England was overrun with wolves. But as Bonnie and her cous...

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. ...

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In 480 B.C., a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer the...

"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the ...

The Author Describes Her Life With Autism And How She Has Used Her Strong Visual Sensibility To Cope With It. Thinking In Pictures : Autism And Visual Thoug...

Here, In Temple Grandin's Own Words, Is The Story Of What It Is Like To Live With Autism, To Be Among The Few People Who Have Broken Through Many Of The Neu...

not Long After Adam Gopnik Returned To New York At The End Of 2000 With His Wife And Two Small Children, They Witnessed One Of The Great And Tragic Events ...

Assigned to a ceremonial post in Mancreu, British consul and Afghanistan war veteran Lester Ferris is compelled to disregard widespread underworld activitie...

The Modern Classic About A Dedicated Teacher In A Tough London School Who Slowly And Painfully Breaks Down The Barriers Of Racial Prejudice. It Is The Stor...

Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may...