**A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture --a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts _The Great Gatsby_ and _The Bonfire of the Vanities_**
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an...
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“The Golden State is a perfect evocation of the beautiful, strange, frightening, funny territory of new motherhood… A love story for our fractured era.”
—Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!
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Virgil Caudill has...
An acclaimed American novelist with a keen eye for our biggest issues and themes turns his gaze to Iraq, with astonishing results.
The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler of the...
From the writer of The Golden Compass – controversial for its depiction of a patriarchal and inhumane Catholic-like institution – comes an articulation of his belief through the "myth" of the life of Jesus Christ.
Does for the Gospels what...
In a London squat, a band of bourgeois revolutionaries unite in their loathing for the waste and cruelty they see in the world around them. But soon they become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence.
Only...
This is a skeptic’s journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago’s tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church...
Even those who have lost everything, still have something to lose.
An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She has no map, no compass, and no food. How...
Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in...
In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker....