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Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

In the India of the mid-1970s, Indira Gandhi's government has just come to power. It institutionalizes corruption and arbitrary force, most oppressive to ...

Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. H...

In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A Histor...

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In Ame...

Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Austr...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies t...

Lipsky, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning novelist, chronicles daily life at the U.S. Military Academy during the most tumultuous period in its ...

I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The...

paul Cartledge, One Of The World’s Foremost Scholars Of Ancient Greece, Illuminates The Brief But Iconic Life Of Alexander (356-323 Bc), King Of Macedon, ...

This Novel Is Centred On A Suspicious Death, That Of Robert Grove, Fellow Of New College. Four Witnesses Each Give Their Own Account Of The Proceedings, But...

The Personal Story Of A Manic Depressive And Authority On The Subject Describes The Onset Of The Illness During Her Teenage Years, And Her Determined Journe...

2013 Orion Book Award Winner2013 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award WinnerOurs is not a stable planet. It is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters an...

'i Set Out Deliberately To Write A Tour-de-force. Before I Ever Put Pen To Paper And Set Down The First Word I Knew What The Last Word Would Be And Almost ...

from The Actor And Writer Ethan Hawke: A Piercing Novel Of Love, Marriage, And Renewal.jimmy Is Awol From The Army, But With Characteristic Fierceness And ...

Babel Tower Is The Third Novel In Byatt's Highly Acclaimed Frederica Quartet. Frederica Is Embroiled In Two Law Cases, Twin Strands Of The Establishment's W...

From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--t...

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fen...

In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing ...

A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Salon Book Award A Village Voice Book of the Year Birds of A...

following The Best-selling Triumph Of Kafka On The Shore, Comes A Collection That Generously Expresses Murakami's Mastery. From The Surreal To The Mundane...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

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with This Novel, Booker Prize-winning Author Anita Brookner Confirms Her Reputation As An Unparalleled Observer Of Social Nuance And Deeply Felt Longings....

Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France.  He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rh...

"A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life...Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty...hi...

The Idea Of Childhood -- Ages Of Life -- Discovery Of Childhood -- Children's Dress -- Modest Contribution To The History Of Games And Pastimes -- From Immo...

IN 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission:to run an apparantly simple errand for a British special operatio...

August 1997 Set in the region made famous by his international bestseller A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle's new novel, Chasing Cézanne, is a wild chase thr...

Angela Vicario's Husband Returns His New Bride To Her Family Hours After The Marriage, Claiming She Is A Dishonored Woman. Angela's Family Forces Her To Rev...

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan And William Hamilton-sweeney, Estranged Heirs To One Of The City's Great Fortunes; Keith And Mercer, The Men Who, For Better...

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorou...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

Marion And Shiva Stone Are Twin Brothers Born Of A Secret Union Between A Beautiful Indian Nun And A Brash British Surgeon At A Mission Hospital In Addis Ab...

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicida...

This collection includes Death in Venice, Mario and the Magician, Disorder and Early Sorrow, A Man and His Dog, Felix Krull (the basis for a later novel), ...

“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.” –The New York Times “A book that should join those few that every liter...

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai...

From his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Alan, Richard Russo has demonstrated great affinity for the tragicomic human condition, and her...

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of ...

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent...

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe ...

First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to th...

The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sa...

A Kind Of Detective Story, Relating A Cranky Amateur Scholar's Search For The Truth About Gustave Flaubert, And The Obsession Of This Detective Whose Life S...