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A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.
In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec...
This House is Haunted
A Novel by the Author of The Heart's Invisible Furies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during...
In Her Absence
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
"[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous."
—Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine
During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives....
Utopia Parkway
The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
**Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text
**
Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius...
Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child....
Climates
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Written in 1928 by French biographer and novelist Andre Maurois, Climates became a best seller in France and all over Europe. The first 100,000 copies printed of its Russian translation sold out the day they appeared in Moscow bookstores. This magnificently written novel about a double conjugal failure...
by Ivan Vladislavic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits,...
High
Confession of an International Drug Smuggler
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and...
Not I
Memoirs of a German Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance
Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza...
The Brothers Ashkenazi
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose...
What You Did Not Tell
A Russian Past and the Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
****NAMED FINANCIAL TIMES "TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR"**
**NAMED EVENING STANDARD "BOOK OF THE YEAR"**
**NAMED NEW STATESMAN "BEST BOOK OF 2017"**
A warm and intimate memoir by an acclaimed historian that explores the European struggles of the twentieth century through...
Beg, Borrow, Steal
A Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department store;...
I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon)
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In early 2005, Richard Polsky decided to put his much-loved, hard-won Warhol Fright Wig, up for auction at Christie's. The market for contemporary art was robust and he was hoping to turn a profit. His instinct seemed to be on target: his picture sold for $375,000. But if only Polsky had waited ....