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Fargo is going straight through hell... When a frontier army fort is ordered to pull up stakes and move, Fargo's scouting skills may not be enough to protect the massive military maneuver. Because even though there are wanton women, blind-drunk buffalo hunters, and highfalutin'...

For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying novel about the agony and exhilaration of being a teenage girl will challenge you, unsettle you and ask you to look at your own experiences with perversions of power. Katie...

Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power. The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society--asbestos. But now their mine is under close...

As loving as it is demanding, as vulnerable as it is merciless, and its complications will break your heart. --Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife...

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots, a collection of playfully surreal stories about love, death, and metamorphosis. In Evil Flowers, a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild yehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the...

A gripping psychological thriller from Eleanor Catton, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse...

From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest--for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Maria Semple, and Linda Holmes"Lipman is an inspired alchemist who converts serious subject into humor." -New York Times Book Review"A new Elinor...

'Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century' - Mirror'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' - Observer Another foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's...

A haunting novella that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano revisits the places and events in his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences: the season in his childhood during which he shared a...

Author: Mary WimmerISBN-10: 0299339742ISBN-13: 9780299339746Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 256Format: Paperback

A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to...

The classic Grimms' fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you've never heard it before Once upon a time, there lived a valiant little tailor who killed seven flies with one blow--but who is this narrator who has abruptly inserted himself into the...

Author: Mary WimmerISBN-10: 0299339742ISBN-13: 9780299339746Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 256Format: Paperback

Author: Maggie GinsbergISBN-10: 0299339343ISBN-13: 9780299339340Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 224Format: Paperback

An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England. In a near-future England, a new government entity--the Ministry of Brains--attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who...

An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England. In a near-future England, a new government entity--the Ministry of Brains--attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who...

Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition...

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Vitae Edition The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of...

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Vitae Edition The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of...

Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition...