It is Paris, November 1993, and Aimee Leduc, a young private detective, is approached by a rabbi to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Marais, the ol
Expatriates of many nationalities are gathered in Sweden, which has granted asylum to American protesters against the Vietnam War. A number are eking out their lives on a meager Swedish dole in Uppsa
Aisling Juanjuan Shen was born to illiterate peasants in a tiny rice-farming hamlet in China's Yangtze Delta in 1974. Pronounced useless by her parents because she wasn't good at planting rice, she b
James and John Boswell come to London in 1763 for very different reasons--James hopes to enter society as a proper gentleman while John has just been released from an insane asylum and is secretly sta
When a chance encounter with a Muslim fugitive drops her down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, Ellie must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on he
“ Benn follows up his first World War II mystery (Billy Boyle) with another danger-filled episode and delivers a cross-genre tale that is at once spy story, soldier story, and hard-Boyled detective.”—
Billy Boyle has been landed in Sicily in advance of the main Allied invasion forces. But when he awakens in a field hospital after suffering a concussion, he has amnesia. He doesn't know who he is or
In a novel set in Bombay in the 1960s, teenager Pinky Mittal, who is being raised by her grandmother, opens a door that has been bolted all her life and frees the ghost of a stillborn infant that tota
In 1763, James Boswell and the literary celebrity Dr. Samuel Johnson take a boat down the Thames to visit Greenwich. Unknown to this pair, they are being stalked by John Boswell, James's younger brot
Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut opens with a murder and shines a spotlight onto life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly finished with grad
Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anyth
On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnecte
Dazzling, paranoid literary sci-fi for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. DickVin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting a
"It started with a single child, and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon. Gan
Disguising herself as a boy and hiding in the melee of the gold rush to escape her past, Alex endures alongside hardscrabble prospectors and raises suspicions in formidable proprietor Emaline, who ext
Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac's wildly ambitious second novel investigates humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classificati
It is 1937, the Dominican side of the Haitian border. Amabelle, orphaned at the age of eight when her parents drowned, is a maid to the young wife of an army colonel. She has grown up in this househo
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child sh
A classic reference for students of the English language. Perfect for word fanatics, puzzlers, and writers. English is a hybrid of Greek, Latin, and some ten other languages. Word Stems defines and d
A womanizing, drunken, failed poet and recently fired drama critic, cantankerous Ted Wallace seeks refuge from his problems at the country estate of his old friend Logan, the site of mysterious incide
