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The Messenger
The Messenger
Written by Stephen Miller
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345528476
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The Messenger
A Novel
Written by Stephen Miller


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2012
Price: $26.00

In a world of heightened threat levels, sleeper cells, and unseen enemies, one novel explores the war on terrorism with harrowing suspense . . . and deep humanity.
 
Daria emerges from a refugee camp a believer. She has lost everything, witnessed the unthinkable, and committed herself to a mission with... Read more >
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The Messenger
The Messenger
Written by Stephen Miller
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345528483
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The Messenger
A Novel
Written by Stephen Miller


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2012
Price: $13.99

In a world of heightened threat levels, sleeper cells, and unseen enemies, one novel explores the war on terrorism with harrowing suspense . . . and deep humanity.
 
Daria emerges from a refugee camp a believer. She has lost everything, witnessed the unthinkable, and committed herself to a mission with... Read more >
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Snowball's Chance

Written by John Reed
Afterword by James Sherry
Foreword by Alexander Cockburn


Format: eBook
On Sale: July 31, 2012
Price: $15.00

This unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction’s most inventive and provocative writers

Written in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball’s Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball...

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Off Side
Off Side
Written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Translated by Ed Emery
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781612191157
Our Price: $14.95
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Off Side

Written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Translated by Ed Emery


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $14.95

Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
 
Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer... Read more >
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Brenner and God
Brenner and God
Written by Wolf Haas, Translated by Annie Janusch
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781612191133
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Brenner and God

Written by Wolf Haas
Translated by Annie Janusch


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $14.95

Introducing one of Europe's most widely popular detective series

Wanting out of high-stress detective work, Simon Brenner takes a calming job as a chauffeur, shuttling a two-year-old girl back and forth in a soothing ride along the Autobahn between her father, a construction tycoon in Munich, and her mother, an abortion... Read more >
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Brenner and God

Written by Wolf Haas
Translated by Annie Janusch


Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $14.95

Introducing one of Europe's most widely popular detective series

Wanting out of high-stress detective work, Simon Brenner takes a calming job as a chauffeur, shuttling a two-year-old girl back and forth in a soothing ride along the Autobahn between her father, a construction tycoon in Munich, and her mother, an abortion... Read more >
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Off Side

Written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Translated by Ed Emery


Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $14.95

Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
 
Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer... Read more >
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The Middle of the Journey

Written by Lionel Trilling
Preface by Monroe Engel


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 23, 2012
Price: $19.95

Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens among... Read more >
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The Profession
The Profession
Written by Steven Pressfield
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767931175
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The Profession
A Thriller
Written by Steven Pressfield


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $15.00

The “master storyteller” (Publishers Weekly) and bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.
 
The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb... Read more >
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Southern Seas
Southern Seas
Written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Translated by Patrick Camiller
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781612191171
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Southern Seas

Written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Translated by Patrick Camiller


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.95

Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year.
 
In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long... Read more >
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The Colonel
The Colonel
Written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Translated by Tom Patterdale
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781612191324
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The Colonel
A Novel
Written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Translated by Tom Patterdale


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $17.95

A new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today
 
Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel—so powerful it’s banned in Iran—tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes.
 
It begins on a pitch black... Read more >
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The Colonel
A Novel
Written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Translated by Tom Patterdale


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $17.95

A new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today
 
Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel—so powerful it’s banned in Iran—tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes.
 
It begins on a pitch black... Read more >
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Missing Soluch
A Novel
Written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Translated by Kamran Rastegar


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $16.95

Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.

Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political...

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Southern Seas

Written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Translated by Patrick Camiller


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $14.95

Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year.
 
In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell—eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters—disappeared not long... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
The Spoiler
The Spoiler
Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307957344
Our Price: $25.95
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The Spoiler

Written by Annalena McAfee


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $25.95

A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by... Read more >
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The Spoiler
The Spoiler
Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307958525
Our Price: $11.99
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The Spoiler

Written by Annalena McAfee


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99

A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by... Read more >
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Truth Like the Sun
Truth Like the Sun
Written by Jim Lynch
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307958693
Our Price: $11.99
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Truth Like the Sun

Written by Jim Lynch


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99

A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush.

Larger than life, Roger Morgan was the mastermind behind the fair that made the city famous and... Read more >
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Viral

Written by James Lilliefors


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $1.99

"Viral is a world-class thriller." -Vince Flynn

Two brothers race to stop a political mastermind's massive bioterrorist plot in this terrifying espionage thriller.

In remote pockets of the Third World, a deadly virus is quietly sweeping through impoverished farming villages and shanty towns with frightening speed and potency. Meanwhile, in Washington, a three-word...

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Viral
Viral
Written by James Lilliefors
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781616950682
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Viral

Written by James Lilliefors


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $25.00

"Viral is a world-class thriller." -Vince Flynn

Two brothers race to stop a political mastermind's massive bioterrorist plot in this terrifying espionage thriller.

In remote pockets of the Third World, a deadly virus is quietly sweeping through impoverished farming villages and shanty towns with frightening speed and potency. Meanwhile, in Washington, a three-word...

Read more >
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Astride a Pink Horse
Astride a Pink Horse
Written by Robert Greer
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781583943694
Our Price: $23.95
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Astride a Pink Horse

Written by Robert Greer


Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $23.95

The Cold War ended years ago, or did it? For Thurmond Giles, a decorated African American Air Force veteran found naked, dead, and dangling by his ankles inside a deactivated minuteman missile silo in desolate southeastern Wyoming, the answer is no. The labyrinthine investigation that follows his death—led by former fighter... Read more >
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Astride a Pink Horse

Written by Robert Greer


Format: eBook, 376 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $16.95

The Cold War ended years ago, or did it? For Thurmond Giles, a decorated African American Air Force veteran found naked, dead, and dangling by his ankles inside a deactivated minuteman missile silo in desolate southeastern Wyoming, the answer is no. The labyrinthine investigation that follows his death—led by former fighter... Read more >
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A Partial History of Lost Causes
A Partial History of Lost Causes
Written by Jennifer duBois, Read by Kathe Mazur and Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780307969286
Our Price: $45.00
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A Partial History of Lost Causes
A Novel
Written by Jennifer duBois
Read by Kathe Mazur and Stephen Hoye


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $45.00

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
 
NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR • WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
 
In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing... Read more >
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A Partial History of Lost Causes
A Partial History of Lost Causes
Written by Jennifer duBois, Read by Kathe Mazur and Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307969293
Our Price: $25.00

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A Partial History of Lost Causes
A Novel
Written by Jennifer duBois
Read by Kathe Mazur and Stephen Hoye


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $25.00

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
 
NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR • WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
 
In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing... Read more >
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Watergate
Watergate
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378729
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Watergate
A Novel
Written by Thomas Mallon


Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $26.95

From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
 
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work...

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Watergate
Watergate
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307907080
Our Price: $11.99
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Watergate
A Novel
Written by Thomas Mallon


Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.99

From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
 
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work...

Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
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