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The Galactic Empire was collapsing. His fall was inexorable, but as slow as the Empire was extensive. It would have gone unnoticed had it not been for a man, Hari Seldon, who knew how to anticipate the future: through the science of psychohistory, he...

In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic...

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls.Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal...

In times of communism, party members received updates from the great Soviet Encyclopedia every month. When in July 1953 the dreaded Beria was finally arrested, the encyclopedia still contained a long and laudatory entry dedicated to him. A few days after the arrest, the...

One day in 1624, a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, treasures in his desk a tooth from that whale, which later his daughter, Plautilla, will keep all...

Scapa Flow was the main English naval base during the two world wars of the 20th century. Thanks to its strategic location, it served as a watchtower to control the exit attempts of the German naval units confined to its two main bases in...

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories....

After escaping from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and then from another camp in Rouen, the unnamed twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers's masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way, he is asked to deliver a letter...

January 1945. There are 4,800 prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Their physical degradation conditions make it impossible for them to be sent back to their places of origin in the West. Then, the Soviet troops stormed Auschwitz so fast that the SS men only managed to...

After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing...

1934 Asturian miners rebel against their social situation and - in the belief that Catalonia, Andalusia and Madrid support them - they take up arms against the Civil Guard and the army, eventually conquering the capital: Oviedo, While these events are taking place, the...

In the year 42 BC, Caesar arrives at the Rubicon River along with the legion that follows him. Pompey awaits him in Rome, convinced of his superiority. The Rubicon is the limit of his province and, as consul, Caesar knows that if he and...

Ursula Kelp, a young English gardener, travels to Buenos Aires to take up the role of head gardener at a long-abandoned estate in the Pampas. The current owner wishes to return to the estate with his family and restore the once-famous gardens to their...

The Goodenough family has left 19th-century New England behind for the swamps of Ohio, and they're bringing some apple tree branches with them. But in the garden they plant, the seeds of discord between James and Sadie Goodenough also sink. While James loves sweet...

The year is 1906, and the governor of Saint Petersburg, Yégor Rasimkara, has closed the university as a result of student protests and has taken refuge in his country house, where he intends to protect himself and his family from death threats. It's all...

The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . . Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe).When...

Rosa Kusstatscher has built a global fashion empire upon her ability to find the perfect outfit for any occasion. But tonight, as she prepares for the most important meeting of her life, her usual certainty eludes her. What brought her to this moment? As...

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's...

The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai-me's people in three unique voices: the legendary, the historical, and the contemporary. It is also the personal journey of N. Scott Momaday, who on a pilgrimage to...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure...