Maggie Darling

by James Howard Kunstler

“A gourmet writing performance…Maggie Darling reads like a delicious feast on a beautifully laid table, with great sex after. Wonderfully entertaining.” –Candace Bushnell, author…

The Magic Christian

by Terry Southern

“Mr. Southern is wonderfully prodigal of comic ideas. . . . An enormously funny and satisfying satire, done with a great thrifty distinction.” —The…

Make-Believe Ballrooms

by Peter Smith

“Wrenchingly funny . . . it treads darkly humorous turf that’s worthy of the author’s sinewy prose.” –The New York Times Book Review

The Malady of Death

by Marguerite Duras

“The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras’ unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of…

Loving Che

by Ana Menéndez

“A beautiful and quite possible reinvention of history.” –Alan Cheuse, NPR

Lyrics Alley

by Leila Aboulela

“Haunting . . . Keeps the reader gripped.”—Anita Sethi, The Sunday Telegraph (UK) The evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the…

Love and Death on Long Island

by Gilbert Adair

“A very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic’s introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture.” –Nick Hornby

Love Life

by Zeruya Shalev

“Love Life moves with a naturalness and grace that mirrors life’s complexity, and offers a brutally honest and often brilliant tour of individual and…

The Loved Ones

by Mary-Beth Hughes

The break out new novel by New York Times Notable Author Mary-Beth Hughes follows a small family in the aftermath of love and disgrace…

Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Philip McFarland

“Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of the great heroines of American history, and Philip McFarland brings her to life in all her glory, in…

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