The acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war.
Luc Crépet is accustomed to his mother's bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic...
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Ohio, 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled in the Black Swamp, planting apple trees to claim the land as their own. As fever picks off their children, husband and wife take solace in separate comforts.
Fifteen years later their youngest...
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A riveting debut novel from an unforgettable new voice that is one both literary, suspenseful, and a compelling story about identity and how you define “home”.
Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in...
At the Villa of Reduced...
Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a 'long romance about Odysseus in his extreme old age, hoisting sail once more from Ithaca'.
As usual there is a large cast of human characters but Powys also gives life and speech to...
Rand’s most notable novel asks the question: What happens to the world when the prime movers (inventors and scientists) go on strike? Narrator Scott Brick takes listeners on a journey so extraordinary they’ll hardly notice the book’s length....
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her — or almost exactly like her — and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her...
"Andrés Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age." — Mario Vargas Llosa
"A story that has been described as an explosive clash between Pavese's The Beautiful...