Carlito’s Way

Published to coincide with a major motion picture release based on Edwin Torres’s classic gangster novel, which Newsweek calls “exhilarating . . . boils with raw energy”…

The Falcon of Palermo

“Bordihn’s scrupulously researched debut brims with drama, passion and personalities ranging from the scandalous to the sublime. . . . Bordihn renders vivid descriptions of the medieval era . ….

Evita, First Lady

“John Barnes describes her life with a veteran storyteller’s robust style, rich in fascinating detail and confidential anecdote.” –Chicago Sun-Times…

The Black Minutes

“A breathless, marvelous first novel . . . This is Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest . . . a literary masterpiece masquerading as a police procedural and…

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852

Brass

“In Brass, Walsh has created some of literature’s sexiest sex scenes, most out-of-it drug-taking . . . and imagery you won’t easily scrub off the back of your mind. It…

The Cello Suites

“This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly told—and, for me at least, ideally read with…

Chambermaid

“Comic debut novel.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Euphoria

“A taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace—a love triangle in extremis . . . The steam the book emits is…

Celebrating National Poetry Month

…Mexico City Blues is Kerouac’s most important verse work that incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are lyrically combined…