Literary

70% Acrylic 30% Wool

by Viola Di Grado

Winner - Campiello First Novel Award;

Finalist – The Strega Prize for Fiction.

Camelia is a young Italian woman who lives with her mother in Leeds, a city where it is always December and winter has been underway...

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone: A Novel

by Stefan Kiesbye

Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror

A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house...

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends...

Squaring the Circle

by Gulla Khirachev, Alexei Lukyanov & Igor Savelyev

Voices from the future. The generation which never lived under the Soviet sytem.

Mendeleev Rock: Two Short Novels from Debut

by Andrei Kuzechkin & Pavel Kostin

A vivid portrait of the modern-day young generation of Russia: youngsters stunned by their first painful contacts with harsh reality.

Off the Beaten Tracks: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers

by Irina Bogatyreva, Igor Savelyev & Tatiana Mazepina

Young Russians explore their country's remote regions and make judgements as they hitchhike off the beaten tracks of Russia.

An Antique Man

by Merrill Joan Gerber

This is the poignant story of a loving, gentle man, "antique" by virtue, "an antique man" by profession. It is the story of his lingering death, of his transcendent courage, of the agony and solitude of those...

Another Gulmohar Tree

by Aamer Hussein

Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom...

The Portable Steinbeck

by John Steinbeck & Pascal Covici

Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with Portable Steinbeck for the 21st century

It would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters....

Strays

by Ron Koertge

Could life as a foster kid lead to unexpected benefits? A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in a smart, incisive new novel. Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery...

Dog Eats Dog

by Iain Levison

Satirical tale of an unholy alliance: a bank robber on the run blackmails a university professor.

These Things Happen

by Richard Kramer

A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The story opens with Wesley, a tenth grader, and involves his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and...

The Sweet-Shop Owner

by Graham Swift

The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop...

Boonville

by Robert Mailer Anderson

Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson—the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother—and Sarah McKay—a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"—search for self and community...

Torch

by Cheryl Strayed

In her debut novel, Torch, bestselling author Cheryl Strayed weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. "Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares...

The Rhythm of Memory

by Alyson Richman

In this sweeping epic, true love transcends the brutality of war.

Octavio Ribeiro loves truth, beauty, literature, and above all else, his wife Salomé. As a student in Chile, he courted her with the words...

Blackberry Winter

by Sarah Jio

In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels--The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter--taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon--Jio...

Swallow the Air

by Tara June Winch

When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his...

lady in the red dress

by David Yee

Max, a lawyer for the Canadian Department of Justice, is losing his mind. In one nightmarish week, he has been shot, punched, stabbed, led on a wild goose chase, and has even seen a ghost.

Finding Casey: A Novel

by Jo-Ann Mapson

Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a resident...