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It is the moment every twenty-something must confront: the time to grow up. Adulthood looms, with all its numbing tranquility and stifling complacency. The end of prolonged adolescence is near.Laura and Tyler are two women whose twenties have been a blur of overstayed parties, a fondness for drugs that has shifted from cautious experimentation to catholic indulgence, and hangovers that don't relent until Monday morning. They've been best frien...

The acclaimed Brazilian author's prize-winning, "captivating [and] impeccably structured novel" of a therapist and the trans patient he lost (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Armando, one of the most renowned therapists in São Paulo, is nearing the end of a long, illustrious career. Against his better judgment he agrees to take on a new patient: Sergio, the teenage son of a wealthy Brazilian businessman. Sergio suffers from malaise and his p...

[This] beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy's life" (The New York Times).A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past and future with deep despondence. That man is the revered novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and this is a fictionalized account of his final years from the celebrated author o...

Else Krischner, a vigorous and effervescent woman, refuses to be imprisoned by society's rules and mors. A sweeping epic that spans the first half of the 20th century and praised as a German "Gone with the Wind" will delight and surprise readers.

A dead man is jolted back in time-by two months-and must try to identify his own murderer, in this suspenseful "existential thriller" (Kirkus Reviews).On the morning of July 9, 2012, New York Times investigative reporter Andrew Stilman is jogging along the Hudson River when he feels a sudden, sharp pain in his lower back. He collapses in a pool of blood. When he regains consciousness, it's May 7, 2012-exactly two months earlier.From that momen...

Jack Laidlaw returns in the groundbreaking series. "The Laidlaw books are like fine malt whiskey-the pure distilled essence of Scottish crime writing" (Peter May, international bestselling author).In this second book in his monumental Laidlaw series, McIlvanney tells the tale of Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant who summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's c...

First in "a crime trilogy so searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal mastermind" (Christopher Brookmyre, international bestselling author).The Laidlaw novels, a groundbreaking trilogy that changed the face of Scottish fiction, are credited with being the founding books of the Tartan Noir movement that includes authors like Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin. Says McDermid of William Mc...

A stark, harrowing, yet deeply courageous work of immense power and magnitude."-Quadrant Homeless and alone, a disturbed youth drifts between town and the Australian Outback, growing increasingly isolated and distrustful in a society lacking the means and seemingly the will to help him. He is coerced by strange voices and haunted by a history of family violence. This compelling coming-of-age novel tells Peter Kocan's own story, offering us an...

A "fierce literary thriller" about an exiled woman confronting her past as a prisoner of a repressive theocracy (Kirkus Reviews).She was known as "Bait 455, " the most famous prisoner in a ruthless theological republic. He was one of the colonels closest to the supreme commander. When they meet, years later, far from their country of birth, a strange, equivocal relationship develops between them. Both their shared past of suffering and old rom...

A London graphic designer is suddenly forced to take over his South Asian family's convenience store in this "hugely enjoyable" novel (The Sunday Express)."Sathnam Sanghera's witty first novel chronicles three generations of a Punjabi Indian family in England. After his father dies, Arjan Banga, a graphic designer in London, returns to the dreary West Midlands to help run the family convenience store. The move causes tension with his white fia...

The mystifying murder of a child brings us into a dark world of intrigue.

Gimnez-Bartlett has discovered a world full of dark corners and hidden elements." "ABC" In this hardboiled fiction for dog lovers and lovers of dog mysteries, detective Petra Delicado and her maladroit sidekick, Garzon, investigate the murder of a tramp whose only friend is a mongrel dog named "Fright." One murder leads to another and Delicado finds herself involved in the sordid, dangerous world of fight dogs. "Dog Day" is first-rate entertai...

A sophisticated crime story of contemporary Ireland, "The Midnight Choir" teems with moral dilemmas as Dublin emerges as a city of ambiguity: a newly scrubbed face hiding a criminal culture of terrible variety.

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Detective Petra Delicado thirsts for new challenges in her work. Meanwhile, her relationship with Sergeant Garzn is getting more complicated as their private and professional lives increasingly overlap, and they find themselves on the trail of a serial rapist stalking the streets of Barcelona.

A tour of Ancient Rome in 115AD, with the empire at the height of its power. The reader wakes in a rich patrician home, taking in the opulent adornments, strolls through the Forum, looks on as a banquet is prepared and is afforded a peek into the private lives of patricians and plebs.

From the pen of the international bestselling author of "The Last Legion" comes a new political thriller set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caesar's Imperial Rome.

Just released from jail, a thief is planning for an armored car robbery. An honest policeman, discouraged by his crooked colleagues, is investigating the murder of a banker. A call from an old acquaintance will change his course of investigation.

Nothomb receives a letter from one of her readers, an American soldier who is fighting in Iraq. Horrified by the endless violence around him, he takes comfort in overeating until his fat starts to suffocate him. Although initially repulsed, Nothomb is fascinated and begins exchanging letters in earnest with him.

Zan Nordhoc, a failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ, sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, Zan, his wife, and their son set out to solve the enigma of the little girl's life.