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Moondogs
A Novel
Written by Alexander Yates
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $11.99
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.
Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio—aka Benny—travels to Manila to reconnect... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Alexander Yates
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $11.99
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.
Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio—aka Benny—travels to Manila to reconnect... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Moondogs
A Novel
Written by Alexander Yates
Read by Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $22.50
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.
Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio—aka Benny—travels to Manila to reconnect... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Alexander Yates
Read by Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $22.50
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.
Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio—aka Benny—travels to Manila to reconnect... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Tripmaster Monkey
His Fake Book
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
His Fake Book
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Class
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won... Read more >
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Como agua para chocolate
Written by Laura Esquivel
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $11.99
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table... Read more >
Written by Laura Esquivel
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $11.99
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Once on a Moonless Night
Written by Dai Sijie
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $14.95
Written by Dai Sijie
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $14.95
A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra—once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China—is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d’Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text.
A young Western scholar in China hears this account...
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Week in December
Written by Sebastian Faulks
Read by Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $22.50
From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe.
London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund... Read more >
Written by Sebastian Faulks
Read by Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $22.50
From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe.
London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Sky Burial
An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Written by Xinran
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $11.99
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.
Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu... Read more >
An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Written by Xinran
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $11.99
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.
Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Rabbit Boss
Written by Thomas Sanchez
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $11.99
The legendary, epic novel tells the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern California--a story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death and apotheosis. Read more >
Written by Thomas Sanchez
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $11.99
The legendary, epic novel tells the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern California--a story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death and apotheosis. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Mistress of Spices
A Novel
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $11.99
Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $11.99
Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Tales of Belkin
Written by Alexander Pushkin
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $10.00
First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly... Read more >
Written by Alexander Pushkin
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $10.00
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.
First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Once on a Moonless Night
Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $11.99
Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $11.99
A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra—once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China—is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d’Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text.
A young Western scholar in China hears this account...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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South of Broad
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $29.95
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $29.95
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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South of Broad
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $30.00
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $30.00
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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South of Broad
Written by Pat Conroy
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $45.00
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Written by Pat Conroy
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $45.00
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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South of Broad
Written by Pat Conroy
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.50
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Written by Pat Conroy
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.50
The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.
Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Class
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won... Read more >
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Dark Arena
Written by Mario Puzo
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $7.99
Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena–an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .
After coming home at the end of World... Read more >
Written by Mario Puzo
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $7.99
Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena–an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .
After coming home at the end of World... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Las caras de la suerte
Written by Cristina Garcia
Translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $9.99
A fines de los años sesenta, tres adolescentes de varios rincones del planeta tratan de encontrar su lugar en el mundo: el cubano Enrique Florit, que vive en el sur de California con su padre, un mago extravagante; Marta Claros, que se las arregla para subsistir en un tugurio de San... Read more >
Written by Cristina Garcia
Translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $9.99
A fines de los años sesenta, tres adolescentes de varios rincones del planeta tratan de encontrar su lugar en el mundo: el cubano Enrique Florit, que vive en el sur de California con su padre, un mago extravagante; Marta Claros, que se las arregla para subsistir en un tugurio de San... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Secondhand World
Written by Katherine Min
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.99
Isadora Myung Hee Sohn—Isa—has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her house and killed her parents. Moving back in time, Secondhand World casts a devastating spell, revealing the circumstances that led to the fire.
Growing up the daughter of... Read more >
Written by Katherine Min
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.99
Isadora Myung Hee Sohn—Isa—has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her house and killed her parents. Moving back in time, Secondhand World casts a devastating spell, revealing the circumstances that led to the fire.
Growing up the daughter of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Illusion of Return
Written by Samir El-Youssef
Format: Trade Paperback, 157 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $13.00
I could no longer resign myself to the idea that the past was unreal.
The nameless narrator of this startling novella believed himself to be under no illuson: a Palestinian refugee, he had escaped the deadly tumult of Lebanon—the roving militias and endlessly complicated religious violence—by having long ago fled to London... Read more >
Written by Samir El-Youssef
Format: Trade Paperback, 157 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $13.00
I could no longer resign myself to the idea that the past was unreal.
The nameless narrator of this startling novella believed himself to be under no illuson: a Palestinian refugee, he had escaped the deadly tumult of Lebanon—the roving militias and endlessly complicated religious violence—by having long ago fled to London... Read more >
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Bird of Another Heaven
Written by James D. Houston
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.
When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown... Read more >
Written by James D. Houston
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.
When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Handbook to Luck
Written by Cristina Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador; Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon's daughter in Tehran. We follow them... Read more >
Written by Cristina Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador; Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon's daughter in Tehran. We follow them... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Las caras de la suerte
Written by Cristina Garcia
Translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
A fines de los años sesenta, tres adolescentes de varios rincones del planeta tratan de encontrar su lugar en el mundo: el cubano Enrique Florit, que vive en el sur de California con su padre, un mago extravagante; Marta Claros, que se las arregla para subsistir en un tugurio de San... Read more >
Written by Cristina Garcia
Translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
A fines de los años sesenta, tres adolescentes de varios rincones del planeta tratan de encontrar su lugar en el mundo: el cubano Enrique Florit, que vive en el sur de California con su padre, un mago extravagante; Marta Claros, que se las arregla para subsistir en un tugurio de San... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Secondhand World
Written by Katherine Min
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
Isadora Myung Hee Sohn—Isa—has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her house and killed her parents. Moving back in time, Secondhand World casts a devastating spell, revealing the circumstances that led to the fire.
Growing up the daughter of... Read more >
Written by Katherine Min
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
Isadora Myung Hee Sohn—Isa—has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her house and killed her parents. Moving back in time, Secondhand World casts a devastating spell, revealing the circumstances that led to the fire.
Growing up the daughter of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
