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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...

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...

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...

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...

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous nove...

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

eight Year-old Orphan Beth Harmon Is Quiet, Sullen, And By All Appearances Unremarkable. That Is Until She Plays Her First Game Of Chess. Her Senses Grow Sh...

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

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...

Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfec...

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

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-...

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibilit...

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...

A Comprehensive Chronological History Of Music With Essays On Nearly One Hundred Composers. Western Music Through The Middle Ages. -the Renaissance (ca. 143...

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...

the Private Letters Of Truman Capote, Lovingly Assembled Here For The First Time By Acclaimed Capote Biographer Gerald Clarke, Provide An Intimate, Unvarni...

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocativ...

This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just ...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Qu...

In Waiting, Pen/hemingway Award-winning Author Ha Jin Draws On His Intimate Knowledge Of Contemporary China To Create A Novel Of Unexpected Richness And Fee...

In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern ...

Graham Swift.Categories:Literature & Fiction

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARDLOOKING FOR AN ANYTHING-BUT-ORDINARY WHODUNIT? • Welcome to the West Heart Club. Where the drinks are neat b...

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people—people without education, insight or prospects, people to...

A masterful novel from one of the most admired writers of our time. Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at ...