Product Catalog

Fiction A-L

Individual titles:

• Across the Bridge of Sighs: More Venetian Stories - The author of Venetian Stories returns with 12 more witty, elegant, and captivating stories in which the conflicting forces of progress and tradition add to the complications of daily life.
• The Age of Innocence - by Edith Wharton
• Alentejo Blue - The story of the picturesque village of Mamarrosa is told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through
• All the Names - by Jose Saramago
• The American - Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris.
• The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction - Features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world
• Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard - Five stories and novella
• Arundel
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord - by Peter Matthiessen
• That Awful Mess On the Via Merulana - A rich social novel, a comic opera, an act of political resistance, a blazing feat of baroque wordplay, and a haunting story of life and death
• Baltasar and Blimunda - by Jose Saramago
• Bangkok Haunts - by John Burdett
• The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, the Snapper, and the Van - by Roddy Doyle
• Beasts of No Nation - A young boy in a West African nation is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country.
• Beijing Coma - by Ma Jian
• A Bend in the River - by V. S. Naipaul
• Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris/Goodbye to Berlin - by Christopher Isherwood
• The Best Maine Stories
• The Black Book - A brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity
• Blackberry Wine - From the author of Chocolat comes an intoxicating tale of love lost and found, set in a small French village.
• Blackwater - by Kerstin Ekman
• Blue Shoes and Happiness - Continues the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective.
• The Bone People - Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage.
• The Bonfire of the Vanities - Sherman McCoy is one of Wall Street's top bond salesmen--then one day a bizarre incident in the Bronx thrusts him into the center of every racial, economic, sexual, social, and political tension in New York City....
• Bordering Fires - Combines writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, and presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation.
• Born in Tibet - by Chogyam Trungpa
• Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - by Junot Diaz
• Bright Lights, Big City - The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
• Brooklyn Noir - New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today's best writers, each presenting a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood.
• Brothers - A sweeping family saga that follows the parallel paths of two brothers born to different mothers.
• By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - The story of a woman and her lover facing life's most difficult choices on a trip through the French Pyrenees that becomes a passionate journey of the heart.
• Captains Courageous - by Rudyard Kipling
• The Captive Mind - Examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
• Caribbean: A Novel - A magnificent novel that captures the eternal allure of that glittering string of islands and their tumultuous history
• Caribbean Mystery - by Agatha Christie
• The Cave - by Jose Saramago
• Chekhov: The Essential Plays - A new rendition of Chekhov's four essential plays, by one of the most admired translators of our time.
• The Circle of Reason - Traces the misadventures of Alu, who is falsely accused of terrorism
• The City Trilogy - Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism.
• Coastliners - by Joanne Harris
• The Complete Novels of Jane Austen - by Jane Austen
• The Complete Stories: David Malouf - by David Malouf
• Confusions of Young Torless - by Robert Musil
• Consider This, Señora - by Harriet Doerr
• The Conversations at Curlow Creek - At once a mystery and a poetic meditation on the themes that occupy the silent center of our lives.
• Cost - Robinson tackles addiction and explores its effects on the bonds of family
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Dumas's grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason.
• Crime and Punishment - by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Set against the backdrop of a land and people riven by racial inequality and injustice, this story remains one of the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history.
• Dancing in Odessa - Winner of the 2002 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize
• Dancing to "Almendra" - Joaquín gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love
• Daughter of Fortune - by Isabel Allende
• Irène Némirovsky David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair - This one volume collects four of Nmirovskys earlier novels, many of them available in English for the first time.
• Death at la Fenice - by Donna Leon
• Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories - by Thomas Mann
• Del Amor y Otros Demonios - by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Dogs of Riga - by Henning Mankell
• Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale - by Jorge Amado
• Down and Out in Paris and London - by George Orwell
• Emma - by Jane Austen
• Enchanted April - The month these four women spend in Portofino reintroduces them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy
• The Engagement - Explores the mystery of a blameless heart in a compromised soul
• Ex Libris - by Ross King
• Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples - Weaves the intrigue of an elusive romance with the vivid and haunting evocation of a legendary metropolis
• Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You - by Fred Chappell
• Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest - A sweeping historical novel about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the extraordinary woman who brought Montezuma to his knees.
• Fencing Master - by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Fish Can Sing - by Halldor Laxness
• Five Quarters of the Orange - From the author of Chocolat comes a novel of a widow in her sixties returning to the French town she left as a child, and the clues to long-kept secrets she finds in her mother's recipe scrapbook.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - This masterpiece of time and place tells a profound and timeless story of courage and commitment, love and loss, that takes place over a fleeting 72 hours. Drawing on Hemingway's own involvement in the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls reflects his passionate feelings about the nature of war and the meaning of loyalty.
• Four Major Plays - by Federico Garcia Lorca
• Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - A vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life
• Galapagos - by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Garden Party and Other Stories - by Katherine Mansfield
• Gate of the Sun: Bab Al Shams - by Elias Khoury
• The General in His Labyrinth - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Germinal
• Gertrude and Claudius - by John Updike
• Ghost of Chance - by William S. Burroughs
• Ghost Sea - A Kwakiutl warrior from B.C.'s wild northern islands raids an artifact collector's yacht to reclaim stolen sacred masks.
• Gifts - A tapestry of dreams, memories, family lore, folktales, and journalistic accounts
• The God of Small Things: A Novel - A richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
• Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague - by Curt Leviant
• The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - For Mma Ramotswe, there is rarely a dull moment, and in her newest round of adventures, the same certainly holds true.
• A Good Year - A fascinating tale of the hugely lucrative and competitive boutique-wine trade.
• Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish - Winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, a marvelously imagined epic of 19th-century Australia.
• The Grass Is Singing - by Doris Lessing
• Growth of the Soil - by Knut Hamsun
• Guiding Elliot: A Novel - by Robert Lee
• Hakawati - by Rabih Alameddine
• Half a Yellow Sun - Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history
• The Harafish - by Naguib Mahfouz
• Here Is Where We Meet - by John Berger
• The Hiding Place - An exceptional novel about family, love, and the innocence and terror of childhood.
• The History of the Siege of Lisbon - by Jose Saramago
• The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge.
• Hotel du Lac - by Anita Brookner
• House of Meetings - At a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt three lovers long after they are released.
• House of Spirits - The House of the Spirits marks the appearance of a major, international writer.
• How Green Was My Valley - by Richard Llewellyn
• Hummingbird House - Henley's powerful debut novel is the story of Kate Banner, an American midwife, who discovers the secret wars in Guatemala.
• I Love Dollars and Other Stories China - by Zhu Wen
• Ice - A work of fantasy, prophecy, parody, and wild paranoia
• Iceland's Bell - In 18th century Iceland, a man becomes a fugitive after being wrongly accused of murder.
• Immortality
• In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Precious Ramotswe confronts a painful secret from her past
• In the Country of Men - A stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare.
• In the Eye of the Sun - by Ahdaf Soueif
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - by Peter Matthiessen
• Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust - These stories cover a broad sweep of time, from the first shots of World War I to the plight of Balkan immigrants.
• The Inheritance of Loss - Takes readers to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency in Nepal challenges the old way of life--and opens up a grasping world of conflicting desires.
• Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Set - Andrea Camilleri's novels starring Inspector Montalbano have become an international sensation. Available here as a set of four.
• Invisible Cities - A remarkable meeting between legendary explorer Marco Polo and the great Kublai Khan.
• Irish Girls about Town - The Emerald Isle's most popular women writers
• Irish Writers On Writing - Celebrates one of the world's most vital literary traditions.
• Island: The Complete Stories - by Alistair MacLeod
• Islands in the Stream - by Ernest Hemingway
• Judgement Hill: A Novel - by Castle Freeman, Jr.
• Kafka On the Shore - by Haruki Murakami
• Kalimantaan: A Novel - by C.S. Godshalk
• King Bongo: A Novel of Havana - by Thomas Sanchez
• Kitchen - by Banana Yoshimoto
• The Kite Runner - An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
• Knots - A woman returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to find herself and reclaim her family's home
• Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong - by Paul Theroux
• Kristin Lavransdatter V1 : The Bridal Wreath - Volume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.
• Kristin Lavransdatter V2: The Wife - A new translation of the second volume of the Nobel Prize-winning trilogy by Scandinavia's most beloved writer.
• Kristin Lavransdatter V3: The Cross - Volume three of the Trilogy
• The Last Days of Dogtown - Peopled with widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, free Africans, and "witches," it resurrects a forgotten sector of society, set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s.
• Last Empress - by Anchee Min
• Last Evenings On Earth - Fourteen haunting stories
• The Last September - by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Late George Apley - Charts the diminishing fortunes of a distinguished Boston family in the early years of the 20th century.
• Librarians of Alexandria: A Tale of Two Sisters - A saga spanning the years from the Unification of Italy in 1870 to the end of WWII
• Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina - An American reporter discovers that the tango may hold the secret to the country that is disintegrating before his eyes
• Lost City Radio - A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war
• Lost Man's River - by Peter Matthiessen
• Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Love Medicine - An authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience
• The Lovers of Algeria: A Novel - by Anouar Benmalek
• New European Poets
• Out Stealing Horses - Selected as one of NYT's "10 Best Books of 2007".
• Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri