Nearly sixty of Egypt’s past leaders — from the time of the Pharoahs to the twentieth century — are summoned to judgment in the Court of Osiris in the Afterlife, in this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize — winning author Naguib Mahfouz.
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Collection of classic stories by collaborators C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl. Introduction and Afterword by Pohl, plus these stories: Mars-Tube (1941); Trouble in Time (1940); Vacant World (1940); Best Friend (1941); Before the Universe (1940);...
Before They Are Hanged
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
—Heinrich Heine
Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies...
A sexy, emotional New Adult romance about a bad boy on the edge and a good girl about to lose control…
The star catcher of the college baseball team isn't supposed to have skeletons in his closet. But Daniel Quinn is hiding a guilty...
"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master." — Alvaro Mutis
Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her...
From the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Rea Award for the Short Story: a gorgeously rendered, passionate account of a relationship threatened by secrets, set against...
My name is Monica. I’m a singer born and raised in Los Angeles.
I’ve stopped dating. When I cut a record, or win a Grammy, maybe then I’ll be with someone, but every man in my past has done everything he could to make me submit myself...
Bettina Wolter, eine deutsche Stewardeß, gehört zu den Überlebenden einer Flugzeugkatastrophe in Tiflis. Ihr Schicksal wird Rußland — und Dimitri, der ihren Fluchtweg im zerklüfteten Kaukasus kreuzt. Und was eigentlich das...
Kress returns to the world of Beggars in Spain to tell a new tale in an America of the future, strangely altered by genetic modifications. Wracked by the results of irresponsible genetic research and nanotechnology and overburdened by a...