"Clever and witty."—Chicago Tribune"The writing is offbeat, achieving the trick of seeming at once grounded and untethered. . . . Elemental acuity and the burlesque combine here to delicious
"[A] dark, satirical comedy. . . . Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book."—USA Today"A gleeful satire. . . . It’s an amusingly bleak li
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is confronted with a crime that comes too close to home. His beloved wife has been killed, apparently just the most recent victim in a series of murders of poli
“Engaging. . . . The 19th-century local color makes a good mystery even more enjoyable.”—Publishers Weekly “A hell of a yarn that moves with the velocity of a newspaperman on
Growing up in an established Jewish family in Richmond, Virginia, Laurie Gunst experienced a love that was to alter the course of her life. Like many children, northern as well as southern, she was br
When a woman from Washington, D.C., moves to a small town in Georgia and is found shot to death in her bedroom, local high school student Sterling O'Connor becomes the prime suspect in the crime. 15,0
Fifteen-year-old Lourdes spends four months harvesting tobacco in the Cuban countryside and begins sessions on becoming a true Communist revolutionary like Che Guevara, and in the process experiences
An eventful year has passed for Maisie Dobbs. Since starting a one-woman private investigation agency in 1929 London, she now has a professional office in Fitzroy Square and an assistant, the happy-g
Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter.Two w
A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980sWith his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the
Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentar
“Vividly honest, deeply moving.”—Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American “It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being com
Billy Boyle is sent by his "Uncle" Ike Eisenhower to Northern Ireland to find stolen weapons and to prevent the Irish Republic from joining the Axis in World War II. Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles h
“Levison is a sly storyteller . . . by turns funny, sad, and insightful.”—Booklist“Plenty of humor in [Levison's] gruff caper, but he punctuates the laughs with
“Enthralling. . . . Chamberlain’s ear is finely attuned to every nuance of The Rose Variations, a novel graced by a profound respect for the humble particulars of life.”&
In this vivid reimagining of a classical Greek myth, the eponymous Greek heroine Alcetis, known as the good wife because she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life, tells about her c
In 1960, when her husband, Rupert, a British diplomat, is posted to the remote Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, Penelope is less than thrilled. But she never imagined the danger that awaited he
