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The Second Empress
A Novel of Napoleon's Court
Written by Michelle Moran
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte will stop at nothing to marry the Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir, in this compelling novel from bestselling author Michelle Moran.
After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When eighteen year old Marie-Louise is told that the Emperor has demanded her hand in... Read more >
A Novel of Napoleon's Court
Written by Michelle Moran
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte will stop at nothing to marry the Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir, in this compelling novel from bestselling author Michelle Moran.
After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When eighteen year old Marie-Louise is told that the Emperor has demanded her hand in... Read more >
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All Souls
Written by Javier Marias
Introduction by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.00
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely... Read more >
Written by Javier Marias
Introduction by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.00
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely... Read more >
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All Souls
Written by Javier Marias
Introduction by John Banville
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely... Read more >
Written by Javier Marias
Introduction by John Banville
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dark Back of Time
Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.00
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.
Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a... Read more >
Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.00
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.
Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a... Read more >
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eBook.
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Dark Back of Time
Written by Javier Marias
Format: eBook, 408 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.
Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a... Read more >
Written by Javier Marias
Format: eBook, 408 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.
Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Buchanan Dying
A Play
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). In what the author calls “a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play,” Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his... Read more >
A Play
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, Richard Maple, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, the harried fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). In what the author calls “a kind of novel, conceived in the form of a play,” Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Buchanan Dying
A Play
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan’s political and... Read more >
A Play
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan’s political and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Pitch Dark
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Muriel Spark
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”
Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City... Read more >
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Muriel Spark
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”
Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Pitch Dark
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Muriel Spark
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”
Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City... Read more >
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Muriel Spark
Format: eBook, 168 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”
Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent... Read more >
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent... Read more >
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Where Tigers Are at Home
Written by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $32.50
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil.
When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on... Read more >
Written by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $32.50
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil.
When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Where Tigers Are at Home
Written by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $18.99
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil.
When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on... Read more >
Written by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $18.99
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil.
When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Enchantments
A novel of Rasputin's daughter and the Romanovs
Written by Kathryn Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”—More
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the... Read more >
A novel of Rasputin's daughter and the Romanovs
Written by Kathryn Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”—More
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the... Read more >
Grant: A Novel
Written by Max Byrd
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $11.99
Max Byrd, the renowned author of Jackson and Jefferson, brings history to life in this stunning novel set in America’s Gilded Age. Grant is an unforgettable portrait of a colorful era—and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center.
Ulysses S. Grant pursued a tragic war to its very end... Read more >
Written by Max Byrd
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $11.99
Max Byrd, the renowned author of Jackson and Jefferson, brings history to life in this stunning novel set in America’s Gilded Age. Grant is an unforgettable portrait of a colorful era—and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center.
Ulysses S. Grant pursued a tragic war to its very end... Read more >
Jackson: A Novel
Written by Max Byrd
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $11.99
In this sweeping, marvelously written novel, Max Byrd, the celebrated author of Jefferson and Grant, presents a superb portrait of Andrew Jackson, a President remembered for his strong will and tempestuous nature—and regarded as “the most dangerous man in America” by none other than Thomas Jefferson.
He became a... Read more >
Written by Max Byrd
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $11.99
In this sweeping, marvelously written novel, Max Byrd, the celebrated author of Jefferson and Grant, presents a superb portrait of Andrew Jackson, a President remembered for his strong will and tempestuous nature—and regarded as “the most dangerous man in America” by none other than Thomas Jefferson.
He became a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Jefferson: A Novel
Written by Max Byrd
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $11.99
As he did with Presidents Jackson and Grant in those magnificent novels, Max Byrd now reveals Thomas Jefferson as we’ve never seen before. Byrd transports us to 1784, as Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, arrives in Paris—a city adrift in intrigue... Read more >
Written by Max Byrd
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $11.99
As he did with Presidents Jackson and Grant in those magnificent novels, Max Byrd now reveals Thomas Jefferson as we’ve never seen before. Byrd transports us to 1784, as Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, arrives in Paris—a city adrift in intrigue... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Lionheart
A Novel
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $16.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry.”—Margaret George
A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers, Richard is crowned King... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $16.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry.”—Margaret George
A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers, Richard is crowned King... Read more >
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The Perfect American
Written by Peter Stephan Jungk
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $15.95
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition at the risk of... Read more >
Written by Peter Stephan Jungk
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $15.95
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition at the risk of... Read more >
The Perfect American
Written by Peter Stephan Jungk
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition at the risk of... Read more >
Written by Peter Stephan Jungk
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition at the risk of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
1948
Written by Yoram Kaniuk
Translated by Anthony Berris
Format: eBook, 190 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $9.99
Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did—and did not—happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction, for what is... Read more >
Written by Yoram Kaniuk
Translated by Anthony Berris
Format: eBook, 190 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $9.99
Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did—and did not—happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction, for what is... Read more >
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Kafka in Love
Written by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.95
Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man--something of a dandy, who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the... Read more >
Written by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.95
Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man--something of a dandy, who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Kafka in Love
Written by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.95
Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man--something of a dandy, who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the... Read more >
Written by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.95
Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man--something of a dandy, who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition)
A Novel
Written by Nancy Horan
Format: eBook, 465 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2012
Price: $13.99
This new deluxe eBook edition features more than sixty-five additional pages of exclusive, author-approved annotations throughout the text to enrich your reading experience. You can access the eBook annotations with a simple click or tap on your eReader via the convenient links. Access them as you read the novel or as... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Nancy Horan
Format: eBook, 465 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2012
Price: $13.99
This new deluxe eBook edition features more than sixty-five additional pages of exclusive, author-approved annotations throughout the text to enrich your reading experience. You can access the eBook annotations with a simple click or tap on your eReader via the convenient links. Access them as you read the novel or as... Read more >
We Think The World of You
Written by J.R. Ackerley
Introduction by P.N. Furbank
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly... Read more >
Written by J.R. Ackerley
Introduction by P.N. Furbank
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly... Read more >
