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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, graf · Penguin Classics
Pages: 1399
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy's great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's... |
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Fresh Complaint: Stories
Jeffrey Eugenides · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey EugenidesJeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The stories... |
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Five-Carat Soul
James McBride · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant,... |
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Three Floors Up
Eshkol Nevo · Other Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.On... |
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The Last to See Me: A Novel
M Dressler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Lauren Oliver and Alice Sebold, a sophisticated, literary ghost story that reminds us the past is never, ever forgotten.In a small logging town in northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams--but... |
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The Kites
Romain Gary · New Directions
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Romain Gary's bittersweet final masterpiece, a novel of courage and resistance -- never before in EnglishOn a small farm in Normandy, as Hitler rises to power in Germany, young Ludo comes of age in the care of his Uncle Ambrose, an eccentric mailman, kite-maker, and pacifist. Ludo's... |
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The First Day
PHIL HARRISON · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences - the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark... |
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The Senator's Children
Nicholas Montemarano · Tin House Books
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
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In a country that loves second chances, are some transgressions simply unforgivable? Sisters Betsy and Avery have never met, but they have both spent their lives under the scrutiny of prying cameras and tabloid journalists. Their father, David Christie, was a charismatic senator and promising... |
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Wolf Season
Helen Benedict · Bellevue Literary Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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"No one writes with more authority or cool-eyed compassion about the experience of women in war both on and off the battlefield than Helen Benedict. In Wolf Season, she shows us the complicated ways in which the lives of those who serve and those who don't intertwine and how - regardless... |
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