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The Unburied

In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a f...

How to Care for a Human Girl

From 'a writer at the top of her game' (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and shar...

Salamander

Summoned to Slovakia by an eccentric count who wants to create the 'infinite book, ' 18th-century...

A Stranger’s House

For years, Claire and Tom Templeton have wished for a child--only to be consoled with a charming ...

The Double Life of Benson Yu

'In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his stra...

Displaced Persons

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own fam...

The Handbook of Good English

Now substantially revised and updated, this essential guide is arranged in an easy-to-follow, top...

Dream Catcher

In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusiv...

Icefields

Set amidst the beauty of the Canadian Rockies in 1897, this 'stunning debut' (Joy Gugeler, Ottawa...

Salt Water

In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned ....So begins this luminous story of a...

The Mystery of the Aleph

'Aleph' tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian-born German who created set theory...

The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse