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White Christmas Wedding: A Novel

by Celeste Winters

Published: 2019-10-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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This heartwarming, feel-good holiday romance brings together a loveable cast of characters who find hope where they thought it had been lost and romance where no one ever expected it. Returning home to her family’s farm in the Midwest for her Christmas wedding was never Beth Dean’s pla...

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In Love with Jerzy Kosinski: A Novel

by Agate Nesaule

Published: 2009-02-09

Hardcover: 211 pages

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From Agate Nesaule, acclaimed by writers across the globe from Doris Lessing to Tim O’Brien, comes a long-awaited novel. In Love with Jerzy Kosinski is a story of courage and persistence, exploring in fiction the themes that gripped readers of Nesaule’s award-winning memoir, A Woman in...

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The Sound of the Mountain

by Yasunari Kawabata

Published: 1996-05-28

Paperback: 288 pages

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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.   By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo b...

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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials)

by Amin Maalouf

Published: 1989-04-29

Paperback: 293 pages

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The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

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The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Vintage International)

by Irvine Welsh

Published: 2016-01-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and decisiveness,...

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Wyoming

by JP Gritton

Published: 2019-11-19

Paperback: 246 pages

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A Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 Pick!A cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself. It’s 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He’s broke, he’s been fired from his con...

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Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

by Caroline Elton

Published: 2018-06-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves From ER and M*A*S*H to Grey's Anatomy and House, the medical drama endures for good reason: we're fascinated by the people we must trust when we are most vulnerable. In Also Human, vocational psycho...

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The Book of Collateral Damage (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

by Sinan Antoon

Published: 2019-05-28

Hardcover: 312 pages

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document th...

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Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

by Andre Perry

Published: 2019-11-12

Paperback: 172 pages

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"Beautiful, brilliant, bold... Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook." ?Christopher John Stephens, PopMattersWith luminous insight and fervent prose, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, travels from Washington, DC, to Iowa City ...

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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Volume 36) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

by Jason De Leon

Published: 2015-10-23

Paperback: 384 pages

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In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration policy.  The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur d...