The Fourth Angel

Far from Heaven, Safe, and Superstar

“Writer-director Todd Haynes makes you drunk on movies again. Talk about movie heaven–this is it. No film this year cuts a straighter path to the heart.” –Pete Travers, Rolling Stone…

The Fall of the Stone City

A rich short novel in Kadare’s unique style, The Fall of the Stone City is a tale of dictatorship, resistance, and magic, set in the most tumultuous period of Albania’s…

Before the End, After the Beginning

A raw, honest, and personal new collection of stories from acclaimed storyteller Dagoberto Gilb, “an important voice in American fiction.” (Annie Proulx)…

Death by Leisure

“With dry British wit, [Ayres] skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic foibles . . . Somehow, Ayres knew the fall was coming and kept going anyway….

Act of the Damned

“An exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices . . . The fury of its rhetoric takes on all but irresistible momentum.” –Kirkus Reviews…

Cold Mountain

“Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task–and has done extraordinarily well by it… a Whitmanesque foray into America: into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul.” —James…

Deviant Behavior

“Mike Sager’s keen, journalistic eye and unique voice transfer to fiction with highly entertaining results. Deviant Behavior is a street-level, symphonic portrait of an American city.” —George Pelecanos, author of…

Country of the Blind

“[Brookmyre’s] characters tend to talk like they’ve read a lot of Elmore Leonard and seen a lot of Quentin Tarantino. . . . [His] books are all about broad humor,…

The River Swimmer

A stunning collection of novellas from beloved master Jim Harrison, The River Swimmer is a breathtaking portrait of two men, one young and one older, confronting inconvenient loves and the…