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In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrificeLucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rou… more

They come to run, to remind themselves they are alive, to exorcize the demons of the past twelve months, to show off, get laid, get drunk, play pranks, join the dance….Each July where the old pilgrim road to Santiago descends from the Pyr… more

Guy Sanderson doesn’t want to take anything seriously, but everyone around him has other ideas. From his girlfriend to his boss, and particularly the security officer at the finance house where he works, they all want him to take things ver… more

The Pope’s Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history’s most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off … more

A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in ParisThe Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the country—and the European continent—to its foundations. In a tradition-obsessed nation where the ol… more

“Women are holyThe people of Weyburn, Ohio, practice a religion thousands of years old-the first religion. And the first law of this religion is that no one may harm a woman. One of them has broken this law. He is a rapist and killer, and h… more

The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.From the Trade Pape… more

From the author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Mercy Among the Children comes the utterly beguiling, big-hearted story of one woman’s resolute struggle to overcome small-town prejudice and deceit. Spanning generations, River of the Broke… more

“I believe, rather I know that mankind and the world are moving towards some sort of mass awareness.”“There is a spiritual awakening that the masses have not quite identified. Mankind is simply tired of being coerced and constrained by the … more

The Weight of Numbersdescribes the metamorphosis of three people: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster idealist to trafficker in the poor and dispossessed; and Stac… more

Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century’s finest writers. Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain N… more

His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), tells the story of a woman who flees her country life for the city (Chicago) and falls into a wayward life. The publisher did little to promote the book, and it sold poorly. His second novel, Jennie Ge… more

“AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AESTHETICS (Bernard Malamud & Bharati Mukherjee as Immigrants) is a well-researched Doctoral study of the dynamics of immigration into America in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.As immigrant writers… more

“Third down, four yards to gain!”The referee trotted out of the scrimmage line and blew his whistle; the Hillton quarter-back crouched again behind the big center; the other backs scurried to their places as though for a kick.”9—6—12!” ca… more

The word passed in a whisper down the long line of the trench, where theAmerican army boys crouched like so many khaki-clad ghosts, awaiting thecommand to go “over the top.”“That will be in about fifteen minutes from now, I figure,” murmure… more

For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown th… more

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expression… more

Aaron Mccathy has wanted to join the army for a long time and he finally is afforded the opportunity after graduating college. He enlists right before the beginning of the War in Iraq and decides to continue with his initial intentions to s… more

A long-dark lamp is rekindled.The South is unshrouded from the Gothic cloth woven by so many poets, dramatists, and novelists of stature. Characters share their obsessive lunacies and tragic error with the rest of humankind; their heritage … more

“Outlaw Joshua Manning becomes a fugitive when his companion shoots a young Christian missionary in a robbery attempt a few days before Christmas in 1905. Escaping, he travels alone from Illinois to nearby Wisconsin, taking shelter in a thi… more