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La's Orchestra Saves the World
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $23.95
From the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music.
It is 1939. Lavender—La to her friends—decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered... Read more >
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $23.95
From the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music.
It is 1939. Lavender—La to her friends—decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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La's Orchestra Saves the World
A Novel
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $23.95
From the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music.
It is 1939. Lavender—La to her friends—decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $23.95
From the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music.
It is 1939. Lavender—La to her friends—decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Alien Hearts
Written by Guy de Maupassant
Preface by Richard Howard
Translated by Richard Howard
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $14.00
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is... Read more >
Written by Guy de Maupassant
Preface by Richard Howard
Translated by Richard Howard
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $14.00
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is... Read more >
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Cairo Modern
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.
Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened... Read more >
Written by Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.
Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened... Read more >
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Everything Flows
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Anna Aslanyan
Introduction by Robert Chandler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.95
A New York Review Books Original
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But... Read more >
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Anna Aslanyan
Introduction by Robert Chandler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.95
A New York Review Books Original
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But... Read more >
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The Narrow Corner
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers.
Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means... Read more >
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers.
Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means... Read more >
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Spinning Tropics
Written by Aska Mochizuki
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Meet Hiro. She's tall, lanky and awkward—a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher.
Meet Dung. She's shy, beautiful, and tough—a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to create a better life for herself and her family.
When Dung becomes one of Hiro's... Read more >
Written by Aska Mochizuki
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Meet Hiro. She's tall, lanky and awkward—a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher.
Meet Dung. She's shy, beautiful, and tough—a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to create a better life for herself and her family.
When Dung becomes one of Hiro's... Read more >
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The Ministry of Special Cases
Written by Nathan Englander
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $14.95
From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever... Read more >
Written by Nathan Englander
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $14.95
From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.
Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Original of Laura (LB)
Library edition, nonremovable cards
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >
Library edition, nonremovable cards
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >
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The Original of Laura
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Preface by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Preface by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >
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Sky Burial
An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Written by Xinran
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $13.95
Read more >
An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Written by Xinran
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $13.95
Read more >
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob... Read more >
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A Happy Man
Written by Hansjorg Schertenleib
Translated by David Dollenmayer
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $13.00
A noirish rumination on being too happy...
This book asks a simple question: Is it possible to write compellingly about a happy person? In the hands of celebrated (but never before translated into English) Swiss author Hansjörg Schertenleib, the answer is a resounding yes—because, as it turns out, even happy people are... Read more >
Written by Hansjorg Schertenleib
Translated by David Dollenmayer
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $13.00
A noirish rumination on being too happy...
This book asks a simple question: Is it possible to write compellingly about a happy person? In the hands of celebrated (but never before translated into English) Swiss author Hansjörg Schertenleib, the answer is a resounding yes—because, as it turns out, even happy people are... Read more >
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Lolita
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
Lolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación —además de tristeza y un humor mordaz— llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor—el amor... Read more >
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
Lolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación —además de tristeza y un humor mordaz— llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor—el amor... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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New York: The Novel
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Format: Hardcover, 880 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Format: Hardcover, 880 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
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New York: The Novel
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $38.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $38.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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New York: The Novel
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $20.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $20.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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New York: The Novel
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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Sandokan
Written by Nanni Balestrini
Translated by Antony Shugaar
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $13.00
A major Italian author’s tale of growing up with Italy’s most brutal criminal enterprise, the Camorra
This striking novella is based on first-hand research of the Camorra, an Italian organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia. It's the brutal organization that was recently exposed by Roberto Saviano, both... Read more >
Written by Nanni Balestrini
Translated by Antony Shugaar
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $13.00
A major Italian author’s tale of growing up with Italy’s most brutal criminal enterprise, the Camorra
This striking novella is based on first-hand research of the Camorra, an Italian organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia. It's the brutal organization that was recently exposed by Roberto Saviano, both... Read more >
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The Art Student's War
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Art Student's War
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Corazon tan blanco
Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.50
Read more >
Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.50
Read more >
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Manana en la batalla piensa en mí
Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.50
Read more >
Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.50
Read more >
