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The Good Thief

Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, "The Good Thief" introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction a...

Goulash

A novel that stirs together the perfect proportions of humor, history, romance, and myth to bring to brilliant life a people, a time, and a city Eager to escape stifling small-town Indiana, Elliott Bl...

Thirteen Ways of Looking

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times...

Leaving Time

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned...

Lunar Park

Tom Sawyers Abenteuer

Der zwölfjährige Tom Sawyer wächst bei seiner Tante am Mississippi auf. Das ruhige Leben in der braven Kleinstadt ist so gar nicht nach seinem Geschmack. Doch zum Glück fällt Tom immer wieder etwas Ne...

Harvest

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic w...

Byzantium Endures

Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he...

This Storm

January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city.A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The...

Norwegian Folk Tales

Collected here in a contemporary translation. With these tales we meet witches, trolls and ogres, sly foxes and mysterious bears, beautiful princesses and country lads turned heroes. Includes illustra...

Tulip Fever

In Amsterdam in the 1630s, Sophia, the young wife of merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, escapes her stifling marriage to a wealthy older man into the arms of the artist who is hired to paint their portrait....

The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaesia (Volume 1

Relish the incomparable imagination of Christopher Paolini in this thrilling collection of stories based in the world of Eragon and the internationally bestselling Inheritance Cycle.A wanderer and a c...