Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and...
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Even his present desperate situation couldn’t spoil his memories of other days in the woods; like the lovely, lazy day he shot eleven...
In his fourth book, Colum McCann turns to the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose...
His choice would govern a boy’s fate—and, incidentally, Earth’s entire...
It’s not hard to disarm a dangerous weapon whose nature you know thoroughly. The one that simply cannot be disarmed, by any conceivable means, however, has a special...
A novel from the creator of Fu Manchu about a mysterious Muslim organization in pursuit.
With the theft of the sacred slipper, rumored to have been worn by the great Prophet himself, came a wave of outrageous horror. Weird,...
Orpheus—wanderer, demigod, and master musician—recounts his own astonishing story. That story ranges from the depths of the Underworld, where he attempts to rescue his beloved but doomed Eurydice, to the farthest, most dangerous corners of the...
Are the Old Martians really a lost race—just withered mummies lying in dark caves? Or are they still alive—somewhere on the red planet? Sally and Jim must find out. They must help their father discover if the Old Martians still exist. His life...
He sought the ultimate pleasure.
With the devil’s help, he got...