Fiction

A train traveling toward Siberia. Two strangers. An opportunity to escape… Two strangers on a train bound for Siberia seek an opportunity to escape their own fears. Shared complicity becomes their only hope for freedom. With a blinding, boreal cadence, Maylis de Kerangal’s tale—illustrated...

Afflicted with a rare genetic condition, Edward H. Gibson was born without the ability to feel physical pain. His body registered neither wounds nor accidents, and he was presented to the New York medical community as the first known case of total congenital analgesia....

The second in the mystery series from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author. Aurora Teagarden: 2 There's nothing like discovering that an elderly lady has made you the unlikely heir of her estate to add excitement to your life. Except perhaps finding a...

Born in 1982, she spent her childhood inventing and building objects, buildings, and models with anything she could find, watching her father sculpt and surrounded by the scent of oil paints and turpentine. Fascinated by the mechanics of the human body, she wanted to...

Written in the 60's, the author could not publish this novel; he committed suicide in 1969 at the age of 32. His mother tirelessly tried to get it published, succeeding in 1980. Set in New Orleans, this book follows Ignatius Reilly as he is...

A gem of crime and mystery literature. One summer night, Sergeant Wigan escorts a drunk man, an old bookseller, to his home. Impressed by his collection, he decides to start his own with the help of his new friend. However, the relationship is soon...

Since winning a drawing contest in second grade, Anna learned that having a talent also means carrying a promise: the promise not to disappoint. That first prize, a case of markers, suddenly became the self-imposed obligation to always paint better, to surpass that initial...

A dog. A hole. A silver mine. And a gang of curiously well-heeled pigs. *The Miraculous Moving of the Miller Mansion* is the wild, true-life account of how a dog changed the destiny of an entire house (and everyone living in it). Written with...

Edmond Dantès is a young sailor — honorable and guileless — who leads a tranquil existence. He intends to marry the beautiful Mercedes, but his life is ruined when Fernand — desperate to win his fiancée’s hand — vilely betrays him. Sentenced to serve...

Walter Tevis — the master of American letters who, like no other, explored the hidden facets of talent, defeat, and redemption in works such as Mockingbird, The Hustler, and The Steps of the Sun — brought to the short story the same narrative precision...

Fifteen stories in which poisonous flowers, unsettling animals, rural rituals, and overgrown gardens fracture everyday life. Hiroko Oyamada, author of *The Hole*, returns with a magnetic, subtle, and disquieting book: an immersion into the strangest, most beautiful, and most ominous side of Japan. A...

Stories that traverse love, obsessions, friendship, and desire. Also, the fear of motherhood and the frustrations that accompany it; the moves that reconfigure a personal map... Confronting the much-vaunted — navigating, instead, the most complex nooks and crannies of a memory that is as...

Delphine de Vigan’s theatrical debut. A meditation on human existence. Delphine de Vigan explores the world of film extras — spending hours waiting between takes and enduring discomforts. Orso, Cécile, Bruno, Joyce, and Nora share anecdotes, worries, and desires, revealing the routines, hierarchies, and...

England, 1643. Rebecca West lives with her mother in a ramshackle house in the wretched village of Manningtree. They manage to make a living as seamstresses, but times are hard. Most of the men are away fighting in wars and food is often scarce....

Welsh picks up with the Trainspotting quartet exactly where he left them — right after that heroin deal that ended in a brawl, and with the proceeds of which Renton fled the country and settled in Amsterdam. In London, Sick Boy meets a posh...

Nicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He had plenty of reason to feel unstable already: he’s been living with his dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs since his Russian-born mom kicked him out. Then one day in geometry class, Nicholas suddenly...

You won't read anything like it... Who killed Luke Ryder? A murder. Six experts. A cold case... until now. Welcome to Infamously Famous, the television show that tackles unsolved murders. Two decades later, the family marked by tragedy is back in the spotlight. Six...

It all began with a letter inquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a London bookshop. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are responded to by the stodgy and proper Frank Doel, a relationship blossoms into a...

Vivian Lestrange, a reclusive and successful suspense novelist, suddenly disappears. Shortly after, his housekeeper also vanishes mysteriously. Is it a publicity stunt to announce his next book? The local police and Scotland Yard will be forced to join forces to solve this mystery, which...