When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic
Available again from the Bergman centenary comes an elegant novel structured as a series of five "conversations" that reveal Bergman's mastery of dialogue and gift for setting.
For one hundred and fifty-five days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA
The prison at Abu Ghraib was still a relatively unknown part of America’s War on Terror whenwith no special training and their gear lost somewhere between the United States and Baghdadthe 152nd Field
I can never remember my dreams, so Mr. Yourgrau’s stories are a pretty good substitute.” David ByrneBarry Yourgrau’s imagination makes critics reach: Fellini? Kafka? Freud in a funny hat? Yourgrau is
By the first woman to row across the North Atlantic and to row across two oceans, an account of seeking adventure and fulfillment on the high seas in a twenty-five-foot rowboat, of her Guinness Book o
An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of ThronesFor Fans of T. H. White, George R. R. Martin, and Philippa Gregory.Beginning with the Palm Sunday bat
This timely, bestselling novel about a military coup in Turkey, told through the eyes of two children, resonates deeply with events there today.Ankara, the capital city in the heart of Turkey at the c
An inside look at the rise of the Special Forces by the man President JFK tasked with its creation, Navy Captain William H. Hamilton Jr., and the veteran military history writer and bestselling author
Anna Broinowski is a provocative, award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Australia who, on a pretext, managed to get invited to North Korea to interview the film industry there and learn about t
The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European hi
A Hilarious Comedy on the High SeasCommodore Robert S. Dickey, the pompous second-in-command at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, desperately wants the top job, presently occupied by the skir
For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales.Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as origi
The finest filmmaker of my lifetime . . . Bergman was a born spinner of tales.” Woody AllenIn this new paperback edition, Ingmar Bergman presents an intimate view of his own unique body of work in fil
In Africa serving as an aid worker, American teacher Hickey is asked to save Ruth, a nurse, when tribal warfare erupts in Southern Sudan, but they and the children who have joined their flight get cau
Military sniper Tommy Smith returns to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California's Sierra Nevada, but his peaceful life is compromised when he discovers a wrecked plane that draws
In Texas during the 1950s, twelve-year-old Harold Stevens spends his summer catfishing and hunting with his closest friend C.K., a twenty-three-year-old Black man who introduces Harold to Old Nail--an
It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California. Seven-year-old Luz Reyes, whose family was
After almost five years in prison, Rose is up for parole, but probation officer Cate Austin must first decide whether this accused murderer can be released or if she really is a threat to society.
Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the sec
