Set in Ireland and America, the twelve gems in Colum McCann's award-winning collection are tales of exile, loss, love, and displacement. The characters - oddballs and outcasts, misfits and travelers -
A vintage car rally in Northern Ireland - a three day race over rough country roads through hostile territory where armed patrols shoot to kill. An American woman of a certain age, clever and independ
Divided into three sections, one for each generation, an anthology of Latino art, poetry, and literature includes a memoir about Carnival in Cuba, the sounds of Spanish Harlem, words on the beauty of
"You scuttering little bastard! What d'you think you're doing?"Norma Snape knew damn well what her youngest was doing. Caught with her purse in his hand, the last of her money clutched between his fin
The battered body of a young woman is found floating in the still waters of a city canal. Police suspect a serial killer, which makes it a case for the newly formed Serious Crime Squad. Not Charlie Re
Hatred stains Jerusalem's golden streets blood-red in Anna Mitgutsch's suspenseful and timely novel of love, trust, and betrayal. When Devorah, an Austrian woman, seeks the truth of her family's elusi
Drawing on her unique position as the wife of a New England fisherman and on photographs from the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Cape Ann Historical Society, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the
Padgett Powell's fourth work of fiction picks up several years after his first left off, on a strip of coast in the low country of South Carolina, sometime home to Simons Manigault. Simons is now out
Emphasizing the artistic dimension of gardening, a collection of short essays offers clear, easy-to-grasp definitions of key concepts in gardening and their application to garden design, aimed at the
A late winter snow paralyzes the city. Fred Taylor answers an emergency police summons to identify a seventeenth-century painting of Christ in agony. The painting highlights a murder scene - a decapit
Yeshe Anjur of Padma is losing his eyesight and must journey across the Great Dream Lake and the Tigri Mountains to find the legendary White Bean Lama of Tigristan, who may be the only man who can res
One of a new series of full-color, magazine-style books about some of history's most fascinating characters offers readers a new and interesting perspective on "Lucy," the prehistoric times in which s
An author of The Art of Planting presents tips on keeping a garden colorful throughout the year, using as examples some famous English gardens, including Powis Castle, Highgrove House, and her own gar
Provides a comprehensive, fact-filled guide that answers more than one-hundred questions regarding the world, the planet, and its inhabitants, such as why tigers have stripes, what the biggest flower
One by one, three young girls vanish in Aurelius, a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighb
A powerful glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, both real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the many movies and books depicting this city as a veritable hotbed o
The hero of Fischer's tale is a bowl that comes into the possession of a young, lovelorn London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an ur
A critically acclaimed debut novel by the former restaurant critic of the London Observer is a tour through the dark recesses of the psyche and scenes of food and drink deliciously described. Reprint.
At the center of the novel is a woman named Tig, a grandmother who chooses to leave her family for a year to join a walk across America in the spirit of her activist youth. But as she physically trave
