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<<< 1 2 3 4 >>>     sort list by title | author Equal of the Sun A Novel Anita Amirrezvani Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Based loosely on the life of Princess Pari Khan Khanoom, Equal of the Sun is a riveting story of... Cubop City Blues A Novel Pablo Medina Not a large book but voluminous and various and well worth reading twice or thrice. Medina's ravishing, sportive anatomy of nostalgia will earn the admiration of fans of that genre's grandmaster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. —Recommended by Matthew Canada A Novel Richard Ford "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm... Home Toni Morrison Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. Bring Up the Bodies A Novel Hilary Mantel Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. Perla Carolina De Robertis A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest. Gods Without Men Hari Kunzru Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed... City of Bohane Kevin Barry In City of Bohane, Kevin Barry fiendishly combines Celtic myth and a Caribbean beat, fado and film, graphic-novel cool and all the ripe inheritance of Irish literature to create something hilarious, strange, beautiful, and startlingly new. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the... The Sea is My Brother The Lost Novel Jack Kerouac A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, The Sea is My Brother is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac By Blood A Novel Ellen Ullman San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin... Ragnarok The End of the Gods A. S. Byatt A standout entry in Canongate's consistently impressive Myths series, Byatt's treatment of Germanic saga and cosmogony distinguishes itself for the narrative grace of its frame and for its fearless plunge into the heart of the matter. Which in this... The Flame Alphabet Ben Marcus "Language kills in Marcus's audacious new work of fiction, a richly allusive look at a world transformed by a new form of illness . . . Biblical in its Old Testament sense of wrath, Marcus’s novel twists America’s quotidian existence into something... The Orphan Master's Son A Novel of North Korea Adam Johnson An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted... <<< 1 2 3 4 >>>