John Rechy's new novel is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1
From the internationally bestselling crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they k
?You might come back, because you’re young, but I will not come back.”?Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ father, speaking to her at the Drancy internment camp, April 1944A runaway international bestseller, But
Erratic Facts, Kay Ryan’s first collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winningThe Best of It, offers sixty-plus new examples of her swift, lucid style. Ryan examines enormous subjects with compact poems
The award-winning crime novelist Ken Bruen is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic. InGreen Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist, Jack Taylor, has hit rock bottom: one
From Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness.Andrew J. Rush has achiev
Lachlan Smith won widespread critical acclaim for his first novel in the Leo Maxwell series,Bear Is Broken, which won the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. In the tense and twist-filled third nove
"Brilliant and uncompromising, Blake again proves why he's one of the best writers working today."—Ace AtkinsJames Carlos Blake, widely acclaimed as one of our best authors of historical and
A British woman and her two children move into a small Croatian village after the War of Independence and befriend a local handyman who helps shield them from the locals' hostilities towards strangers. 20,000 first printing.
Can one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and the chairman of HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global econo
In Henry Porter's critically acclaimed novel The Bell Ringers, England in the near future is eerily familiar. There are concerns about terrorism, the press is feisty, and the prime minister is soon t
Long regarded by fans and other hiphop musicians as the quintessential hiphop act, Public Enemy exploded onto the scene in the late 1980s in New York City with the release of their first album Yo! Bum
This uproarious novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert Olen Butler is set in the underworld. Its main character, Hatcher McCord, is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and
The Commonwealth Writer's Prize-winning author of The Secret River presents a follow-up set in late 18th-century New South Wales that finds misfit Daniel hoping to find his place in life when he joins
Michael Tucker and his wife, Jill Eikenberry, are enjoying the early years of retirement in their dream house, a beautiful 350yearold stone farmhouse in the central Italian province of Umbria, when li
A Glass of Water is a gripping tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at our country’s borders. The first novel from award-winn
From the author of Legends of the Fall and The English Major comes a collection of three novellas, in which the title novella depicts a home-schooled 15-year-old girl whose youth meets unexpected brut
A Girl Made of Dust is a sophisticated exploration of one family’s private battle to survive in the midst of civil war. In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shif
Ismail Kadare’s The Siege dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the fifteenth century. As the bloody and psychologic
Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Awardwinning writer Bob Shacochis’s The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American
Albert Camus is best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? Camus, a Romance reveals the French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-st
The three linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote and often unforgiving backcountry, and delicately open up the private worlds of three ve
The Dress Lodger, a cunning historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice, is the book that launched Sheri Holman into bestsellerdom. With over 300,000 copies sold and a consistent top &
In 2032, newly elected president Joe Benton realizes that the effects of global warming have been greatly underestimated and must scramble to negotiate with other countries to come up with a plan to s
Roger and Ginger Pomeroy's struggles with identity and financial troubles lead to a series of poor choices that affect their three children, especially Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her
Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press,The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-
Describes the author's return from a stint as a war correspondent in Iraq to immerse himself into the American leisure economy, detailing his experiences in a world of gratuitous consumption, billiona
February is Lisa Moore’s heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel, Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. Propelled by a local trag
Sent to Iraq to find artifacts that survived the war, a linguistics scholar discovers the ancient scrolls of the Fifth Gospel and decides to reveal his discovery, failing to realize the consequences f
A historical examination of the ivory trade, its significance in cultures around the world, and the steps taken in the 1980s to institute a ban in order to save the last remaining elephant herds on th
Living Room is a disarmingly direct portrait of a family in trouble, With the tone of a modern-day Jewish Ice Storm set in Long Island, imbued with Alice Munro's fascination with personal history, th
In September 1944, with the Allies eager to break into Nazi Germany after Normandy, thirty-five thousand U.S. and British troops parachuted into Nazi held territory in the Netherlands. The controvers
Cedar Rivers is on a strange errand. An MD sidelined into the world of the first dot-com boom, he has come to upstate New York to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. Then a Chuck Taylor-shod
The follow up to his best-selling memoir Monster, Sanyika Shakur?s T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. is a vicious, heart-wrenching and true-to-life novel about an LA gang member that masterfully captures the violenc
Carolyn Chute’s newest paperback returns to her beloved town of Egypt, Maine and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of those living on the margins of our society.The School on Heart’s Co
In House Rules, two foiled terrorist attacks and a law targeting Muslim Americans send Joe DeMarco on a dangerous mission among mobsters, meth dealers, and the Washington political elite.First there
In The Sand Castle, beloved American novelist Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle) revisits some of her most spirited and unforgettable characters—sisters Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmeir, and Juts’s
Originally published by McSweeney’s in hardcover and met with wide acclaim, Arkansas is a darkly comic debut novel written by John Brandon about a pair of drug runners, Kyle and Swin, set in the rural
It was just a harmless lie - to say he was driving Danny Grogan's car when it was caught speeding down the Sydney streets on New Year's Eve - and Danny's father, a billionaire real-estate tycoon, had
The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally "one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest." Now the four-time Tony Award-winning author of such classics as Love! Valour! C
