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Laura, a brilliant student and promising scholar, escapes from her small town, working class background to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield scholarship to Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her schoolwork, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation among the anointed "best and brightest" of her generation. Years later, back in the U.S. with a Ph.D. in Henry James studies, ...

After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucâia has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf, he says, is his name, also the name of the character from Puccini's Turandot and the name of the bird Lucâia received on her 10th birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When...

Global capitalism fails young Barcelona couples in this dynamic English-language debut from a rising literary star

From one of Spain's most original authors comes a wild, absurdist story abouta lonely man's misguided attempts to connect.

A nineteenth-century American journalist becomes deeply invested in the tragic case of a young Welsh girl deemed a miracle

Special edition of Paul Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel-featuring a foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside

A mysterious family tragedy inspires a journey across the globe, into the past, and through the tangled memories of childhood.

A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired him

In the fifth American Novels series book, a nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

In 1940s Texas, an isolated young girl navigates the mysteries and threats of the adult world

An essential collection from the writer and physician Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel calls "America's most interesting and important essayist”

The war comes home in a searingly compassionate story about the wounds inflicted on soldiers, refugees, and their families

An illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children's experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood

In this lyrical, evocative debut novel, a family is consumed by dark secrets as tensions rise in Northern Ireland.

[Dr. Reicher] lived through the Second World War in Poland, dodging bullets, uprisings and deportations--not to mention betrayal, starvation and airless hideouts--in a manner more reminiscent of a talented outlaw than a mild-mannered dermatologist ...It is the impressive simplicity of the good doctor's writing that makes [t]his book resemble [Victor] Klemperer's, and the detailed observations of its report that makes it emotionally memorable.....

Minority Report meets Dr. Strangelove in the true story of how neuroscience and related technologies are shaping national defense.

The gripping tale of a young man's obsession with an Arctic explorer's doomed quest to find the Northwest Passage

Pop culture meets cutting-edge science in this one-volume introduction to the history of science and modern biology.

The Body Politic" is the first comprehensive history of the significance and struggles over science in America.