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Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning creator and star of the musical Hamilton, and Tony Award-winning actress, Karen Olivo. This brilliant narration adds another layer of lyricism and depth to this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel. Things have never been easy for Oscar...

The Manipuri writer Binodini's Sahitya Akademi Award-winning historical novel The Princess and the Political Agent tells the love story of her aunt Princess Sanatombi and Lt. Col. Henry P. Maxwell, the British representative in the subjugated Tibeto-Burman kingdom of Manipur. A poignant story of...

Allahabad, early twentieth century. The British rule across India, but Avadhi culture is thriving. In this city where singers, musicians and poets assemble, a star emerges. Janki Bai Ilahabadi enthrals listeners wherever she performs, and counts as her fans maharajas and maharanis, poets and...

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca...

""A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works."" — Chicago Sun-Times In The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its...

This collection of original stories by today’s finest women writers—including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more—takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the...

If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don’t polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks.Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh’s childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist...

The internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino's mesmerizing Invisible Cities. How many times have words not been...

More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L’Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India, China, and even the future. Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis L’Amour’s...

A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers. “The cat is the beautiful devil.” Felines touched a vulnerable spot in Charles Bukowski’s crusty soul. For the writer, there was something majestic and elemental about...

In una notte di tempesta, una balena si arena sulle rive della tenuta di Chilcombe nel Dorset. Per legge, tutti i relitti appartengono al re, ma la dodicenne Cristabel Seagrave ha altri piani. È determinata a rivendicarla come sua e a utilizzare le ossa del cetaceo per costruire un teatro sulla spiaggia. Un palcoscenico per tutti i libri che ha letto negli anni, di nascosto, nella polverosa biblioteca di famiglia; libri che non hanno mai per protagoniste ragazze come lei. Ora però è arrivato il momento che le cose cambino.

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

The first of its kind, a unique volume of twenty-one unpublished gems from one of the twentieth century’s most popular and prolific writers Using his father’s handwritten notes, journal entries, and correspondences, Beau L’Amour uncovers how and why many never-before-seen manuscripts...

La sera del 29 gennaio 1996 un incendio illumina il cielo di Venezia: il teatro La Fenice brucia. L'incendio è stato appiccato dal titolare di una piccola ditta in ritardo sulla fine dei lavori per il restauro del teatro. Giorgio Falco ha scritto un libro che come un incendio illumina e divora il suo oggetto: ricostruzione di una storia vera e sua decostruzione; romanzo di un'ossessione; indagine sul desiderio e sul potere del denaro di trasformare le cose e i corpi; ritratto in maschera degli ultimi quarant'anni di storia italiana, autobiografia di tutti.

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Haunting and evocative, brutal and...

On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the...

In ihrer autobiographischen Erzählung gibt die Autorin Einblicke in das Leben im Kreise der Familie, der Verwandtschaft und der Dorfgemeinschaft in Neunkirchen (Kreis Daun) in der Eifel. Sie berichtet aus dem Schulalltag, erzählt von Pastor und Kirche, vom Zusammenleben mit den Tieren und den alltäglichen anfallenden Arbeiten auf dem Bauernhof. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Kindheit und dann die Jugend der "Tinnes Martha" in ihrem Eifeldorf in den 40-er bis 60-er Jahren. Anschaulich erzählt Roos vom frühen Tod der Mutter, und davon, dass der Vater nun sieben Kinder allein ernähren musste.

These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker...

In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police...