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A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.' --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this...

Author: Tove DitlevsenPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 125082978XISBN-13: 9781250829788

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award The Country Life, Rachel Cusk?s third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being...

First published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux--Title page verso.Author: J. G. BallardPublisher: PicadorPublication Date: Jun 12, 2018Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús Gonzalez, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for...

What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a...

A tale of two cities?Piura and Lima?rocked by scandal, and the disintegrating bonds of loyalty between the generations Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa?s newest novel follows two fascinating...

Winner of the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize "Exceptional . . . A poisoned world, with ruthless people, apparatchiks, Stakhanovites,...

A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an...

Winner of the National Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's The Echo Maker, a powerful novel...

A masterful story collection-heartbreaking and hilarious-from one of America's greatest writers Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do-bum...

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. ?Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I?m really...

A brilliantly moving and unforgettable novel. - Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life Janet Peery?s first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed...

From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience--Author:...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL. In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a...

Returning to her native Domincan Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral, discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called the Goat by the Domincans, still reigns over his inner...

?A slim, tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting.? ?Emma Donoghue, author of The Pull of the Stars From the award-winning author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater, Sarah Moss?s The...

One of the best history books I've read in the last few years. ?Chris Hayes A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR...

Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the Oprah Magazine. One of Daily Mail and Financial Times's Best Books of 2018. ?There...

NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. Semele Cavnow appraises...

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the...

An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between...

Biographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the "Glass Wall" between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account. Few countries have suffered...

A devastating novel of World War II and the final months of a war that forever darkened the souls of the civilians who lived through it, from the award-winning author of To Die in Spring. As the...

The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws,...

The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler of the Twenty-seventh Infantry Battalion goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead-one, a young Iraqi, by...

In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the "new" South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly democratic country in a shambles...

From the New York Times?bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy?explaining why it has been plagued by...

?HERE IS IN THESE TALES A RECURRENT ?EELING OF QUEASY ANTICIPATION,?AS ONE OF MCFARLANE? CHARACTERS OBSERVES, ?S IF SOME TERRIBLE THING MIGHT HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT.?. . . IT? A MOOD YOU ASSOCIATE WITH...