To a Formula One driver, speed, wheel-to-wheel combat and danger are all part of everyday life. Things turn sinister at the Monaco Grand Prix — when Remy Sabatino’s car is sabotaged. Then Remy’s teammate suffers a death-defying crash. Are...
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Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award — Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he...
A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form; his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout,...
A semi-sequel to the visionary Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories, Induced Coma: 50 & 100 Word Stories once again features Harold Jaffe writing to the Nth power, taking as his subject no less than the benighted globe. Including published...
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in...
An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright.
My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a...
In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring...
The acclaimed National Book Award finalist — "one of the United States' finest writers," according to Joshua Ferris, "full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity" — now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children...
‘It’s a bad girl’s world, sweetie, and I’m way badder than you.’
Crusader's Gold is Alicia Myles’ second outing with the Gold team, and brings her up against two ruthless new enemies. Kenzie is an ex-Mossad relic smuggler without an...
A good engineer takes the unexpected in...