It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five...
Meet John Cromer, one of the most unusual heroes in modern fiction. If the minority is always right then John is practically infallible. Growing up disabled and gay in the 1950s, circumstances force John from an early age to develop an intense...
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And...
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense—the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own...
Autor pragnie rozprawi? si? z tzw. 'wyborem mniejszego z?a', a wi?c z problemem etycznym, dyskutowanym od stuleci przez wszelkich m?drc?w i demagog?w, i ze zjawiskiem psychospo?ecznym, realizowanym od stuleci przez jednostki i ka?d?...
Autor pragnie rozprawić się z tzw. 'wyborem mniejszego zła', a więc z problemem etycznym, dyskutowanym od stuleci przez wszelkich mędrców i demagogów, i ze zjawiskiem psychospołecznym, realizowanym od stuleci przez jednostki i każdą...
Als Lucius von dem Angebot an seinen Vater hört, ihn als Centurio zur Legion zu schicken, ist er begeistert und als sein Vater Pertinax einen Exgladiator einstellt, der ihn im Schwertkampf unterrichten soll, kennt sein Glück keine...
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement...
Madeleine Thien's stunning debut novel hauntingly retells a crucial moment in history, through two unforgettable love stories. Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries, is haunted by the mystery of her father's Asian past. As a child, Gail's...