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Train to Trieste
Train to Trieste
Written by Domnica Radulescu
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307388360
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Train to Trieste

Written by Domnica Radulescu


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00

In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a green-eyed boy who lives in Brasov, the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. But under the Ceausescu dictatorship, paranoia infects everyone; soon Mona begins to suspect that Mihai is part of the secret police. As... Read more >
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Measuring the World
Measuring the World
Written by Daniel Kehlmann
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307496751
Our Price: $16.00
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Measuring the World
A Novel
Written by Daniel Kehlmann


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $16.00

The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment.

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle... Read more >
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A Mad Desire to Dance
A Mad Desire to Dance
Written by Elie Wiesel, Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307266507
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A Mad Desire to Dance

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $25.00

From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man’s attempt to reclaim happiness.

Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers... Read more >
The Rules of the Game
The Rules of the Game
Written by Leonard Downie, Jr.
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307269614
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The Rules of the Game
A novel
Written by Leonard Downie, Jr.


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $26.95

From Leonard Downie Jr., longtime editor of The Washington Post, an eye-opening novel of corruption, deception, and intrigue in our nation’s capital.

Sarah Page, a rising star at the Washington Capital, has been assigned to cover the dark world of politics and money in Washington. But when she begins to investigate an... Read more >
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Train to Trieste
Train to Trieste
Written by Domnica Radulescu
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307268235
Our Price: $23.95
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Train to Trieste

Written by Domnica Radulescu


Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $23.95

An incandescent love story—a thrilling debut novel—that moves from Romania to America, from the Carpathian Mountains to Chicago, from totalitarianism to freedom, and from passionate infatuation to profound understanding.

In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a mysterious, green-eyed boy who lives in Brasov, the... Read more >
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Angels Beneath the Surface
Angels Beneath the Surface
Edited by Mitja Cander and Tom Priestly, Introduction by Ales Steger
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556437038
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Angels Beneath the Surface
A Selection of Contemporary Slovene Fiction
Edited by Mitja Cander and Tom Priestly
Introduction by Ales Steger


Format: Trade Paperback, 190 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $15.95

With a per capita publishing rate of more that three times that of the United States, Slovenia has a long and storied literary history, from the legendary 9th-century Freising Manuscripts to postmodern masterpieces by Igor Bratoz. Continuing that tradition, Angels Beneath the Surface, the first collection of Slovene fiction to... Read more >
Measuring the World
Measuring the World
Written by Daniel Kehlmann
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277398
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Measuring the World
A Novel
Written by Daniel Kehlmann


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.00

Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment.

Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the... Read more >
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The Coup
The Coup
Written by Jamie Malanowski
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385523042
Our Price: $22.95
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The Coup
A Novel
Written by Jamie Malanowski


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $22.95

A savagely funny and knowing political satire about a vice president with an irresistible itch to move up a notch.
Godwin Pope, the current vice president of the United States, is bored out of his skull. The one-time software billionaire and hyperconfident alpha male has been reduced to the most empty tasks... Read more >
Blow the House Down
Blow the House Down
Written by Robert Baer
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400098361
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Blow the House Down
A Novel
Written by Robert Baer


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $14.95

Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.

Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audio CD, abridged audiobook download and an eBook.
Clark Gifford's Body
Clark Gifford's Body
Written by Kenneth Fearing, Introduction by Robert Polito
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171820
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Clark Gifford's Body

Written by Kenneth Fearing
Introduction by Robert Polito


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.95

Back in Print After Fifty Years


Clark Gifford? A cipher. A disaffected, vaguely idealistic politician in a nameless media-driven modern state where representative politics has dwindled to the corrupt transaction of business as usual and a new foreign war is always breaking out. One night Gifford and his followers seize some radio... Read more >
Blow the House Down
Blow the House Down
Written by Robert Baer, Read by John Rubinstein
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739332399
Our Price: $29.95
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Blow the House Down
A Novel
Written by Robert Baer
Read by John Rubinstein


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $29.95

Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.

Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.
Blow the House Down
Blow the House Down
Written by Robert Baer, Read by John Rubinstein
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739332405
Our Price: $15.00

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Blow the House Down
A Novel
Written by Robert Baer
Read by John Rubinstein


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $15.00

Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.

Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audio CD, eBook and a trade paperback.
Blow the House Down
Blow the House Down
Written by Robert Baer
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307347459
Our Price: $14.95
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Blow the House Down
A Novel
Written by Robert Baer


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $14.95

Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.

Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius... Read more >
Al-Naqba (The Catastrophe)
Al-Naqba (The Catastrophe)
Written by Barbara Goldscheider
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781583941270
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Al-Naqba (The Catastrophe)
A Novel About the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Written by Barbara Goldscheider


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2005
Price: $14.95

Based on events, organizations, and locations that Barbara Goldscheider experienced while working on army bases throughout Israel, Al-Naqba, The Catastrophe follows the parallel stories of an elite Palestinian Arab and an officer of the Israeli Defense Forces. Asa Ibrahimi’s infatuation with the daughter of a desert sheikh is brutally ended when... Read more >
Mao II
Mao II
Written by Don Delillo, Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9781415919712
Our Price: $17.50

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Mao II

Written by Don Delillo
Read by Michael Prichard


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 19, 2000
Price: $17.50

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Anil's Ghost
Anil's Ghost
Written by Michael Ondaatje, Read by Alan Cumming
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9781415920718
Our Price: $17.50

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Anil's Ghost

Written by Michael Ondaatje
Read by Alan Cumming


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $17.50

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.

The time is our own time. The place is Sri... Read more >
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