A New York love story as seductively neurotic as the city itself.
At thirty-two years old, Lynn Gallagher is one of the five most influential contemporary-art gallery owners in Manhattan. Too bad her face is dead. Not so, says Lynn’s...
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Working on behalf of a cunning and mysterious couple, a woman embarks on a haunting search for a stranger (a child? somebody’s lover? a ghost?) and undertakes a perplexing, dangerous, deeply layered, and apparently timeless journey originating on...
Lions, rabbits, monkeys, pheasants — all have shared the spotlight and tabloid headlines with famous men and women. Sharon Stone’s husband’s run-in with a Komodo dragon, Thomas Edison’s filming of an elephant’s electrocution and David...
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Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
“A great adventure. So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times
In Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social...
National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom has written a tale of growing up that is sharp and funny, rueful and uncompromisingly real. A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime,...
Vivid, powerful stories of contemporary Nigeria, from a talented young author.
* One of the Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2013 *
When it comes to love, things are not always what they seem. In contemporary Lagos, a young boy may pose...
The first book in Louise Erdrich's highly acclaimed "Native American" trilogy that includes "The Beet Queen," "Tracks," and "The Bingo Palace," re-sequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters."A dazzling series of family...
This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri-the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love… and everything else to share but time....
Love You Hate You Miss...
From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons.
Layla Carter, 16,...