“Some fine writer . . . Waugh rewired for the 80s.”—Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal? “She has a gift.”—Los Angeles Times? “Impressive.”—Chicago Tribune? “Her stories will do more than a score
Erin Mulcahy's plans of going away to art school are put on hold after her older sister, Meghan, a single mother with two children, return to their home town of Butte, Montana.
“Townsend’s wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.”—San Francisco Chronicle? “Townsend is [a] comic genius.”—The Village Voice (a Top Shelf selection) ?
“This book has got it all—an instant classic.”—Lee Child, author of The Hard Way “A tale as tight as a drum. Doesn’t get any better than this.”—Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of the Poppy Rice mysterie
Ken, a Japanese man raised in Hawaii, tells his story to his cellmate Cal, a white formerly racist tattoo artist who lost his voice when his throat was cut in a prison fight and who has become a trust
In November of 1942 the Allies are poised to liberate Algeria from the Vichy French regime, a client state of Nazi Germany. This, it is hoped, will squeeze Rommel's Africa Korps between two forces an
"Clever and witty."—Chicago Tribune"The writing is offbeat, achieving the trick of seeming at once grounded and untethered. . . . Elemental acuity and the burlesque combine here to delicious
"[A] dark, satirical comedy. . . . Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book."—USA Today"A gleeful satire. . . . It’s an amusingly bleak li
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is confronted with a crime that comes too close to home. His beloved wife has been killed, apparently just the most recent victim in a series of murders of poli
“Engaging. . . . The 19th-century local color makes a good mystery even more enjoyable.”—Publishers Weekly “A hell of a yarn that moves with the velocity of a newspaperman on
Growing up in an established Jewish family in Richmond, Virginia, Laurie Gunst experienced a love that was to alter the course of her life. Like many children, northern as well as southern, she was br
When a woman from Washington, D.C., moves to a small town in Georgia and is found shot to death in her bedroom, local high school student Sterling O'Connor becomes the prime suspect in the crime. 15,0
Fifteen-year-old Lourdes spends four months harvesting tobacco in the Cuban countryside and begins sessions on becoming a true Communist revolutionary like Che Guevara, and in the process experiences
An eventful year has passed for Maisie Dobbs. Since starting a one-woman private investigation agency in 1929 London, she now has a professional office in Fitzroy Square and an assistant, the happy-g
Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter.Two w
A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980sWith his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the
