Fiction

With terse and precise phrases and a fierce irony, Patricia Highsmith highlights and accentuates the most ridiculous, or most perverse, aspects of the female prototypes she presents to us in order to reveal the devastating power of those creatures that once seemed familiar to...

Amsterdam, 1892. Lydia mourns the death of her parents, who have passed away one after the other. She has inherited the family home in the city and the country house in Purmerend. Despite the sad loss, she is full of ideas for the future...

That year, I was twenty-two years old, and at the same time, I was about to meet the elusive Paul Darrigrand and flirt dangerously with death, though these two events had no connection to each other. On the one hand, pleasure and carefreeness; on...

Red Bones marks the third in a stellar suspense series set on the Shetland Islands from bestselling author Ann Cleeves--the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued....

Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from...

Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray' (Publishers Weekly). #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris introduces a librarian whose bookish...

Summer is here, and for everyone, that means sun and fun, except for siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock. If they'd been called "the Pringles brothers," they might have been selling potato chips. Or if they were "the Forest brothers," they might have been explorers....

Dragons are well known for being sulky and difficult. However, by following these simple but important guidelines, you might just create a lovable and (almost) friendly pet. The Dangerous Pet Lover's Guide to Dragons is the essential dragon-care manual you didn't know you needed....

There are seven houses, and they are empty. The narrator, according to Rodrigo Fresán, is "a sane scientist observing madmen, or people who are seriously considering going mad." And sanity, as always, is superficial. For ten years now, Samanta Schweblin has been drawing us...

Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call it simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their quiet lakeside cottage since they were children, is so frustrated. But he knows that the woodcock that...

Fernando Pessoa's passion for the detective genre is well documented in his writings: "One of the few intellectual diversions that persists in what remains of humanity's intellectual life is the reading of detective novels. Among the inestimable and small number of happy hours that...

At the dawn of the 8th century, in Asturias, as in other regions of Hispania, the Christians were brutally mistreated and forced to pay an onerous tax if they wanted to continue to profess their religion and not adhere to Islam. The discontent grows...

After a major shock, Carla needs to put her life back in order, reconnect with what truly matters, and heal her wounds. To achieve this, she must travel deep within herself and also far away: to countless islands that will allow her to see...

"When will I get to be the main character in my own life?" Burnt out by life in Seoul, Jebi has come to Jeju Island for a much-needed summer holiday. But on the last day of her trip, she loses everything: phone, credit cards,...

"A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today’s reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims... The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel’s guiding concept cuts close to the bone with no anesthesia. Shriver isn’t...

A book of stories that unfolds like a fragmentary recollection, shot through with exaltation, guilt, desire, reconciliation, and an often painful lucidity. The beloved, inaccessible, authoritarian, powerful woman can also epitomize a moralistic and repressive Spain, whose promise of justice is never fulfilled. Memory,...

Chicago, at a moment in time... Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. He is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of...

Germán Calderari has an orderly life and a family past he doesn't like to dwell on. He lives in Orcelis, works as a court clerk, has grown accustomed to solitude, and has almost forgotten the name of Lupe, his twin. One day, social services...

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between...

Eliza Barry Callahan bursts onto the literary scene with The Hearing Test, a perceptual odyssey about the effects of sudden hearing loss, an event that will shape the protagonist's communication and personal relationships. A fascinating journey through the search for meaning in a world...