Fiction

Susan Johnson

Love Storm

This erotic romance, long out of print, returns for the fans of the bestselling author of Pure Sin, Seized by Love and Outlaw. When the notorious rake Prince Alexander Kuzan encountered the alluring redhead seeking safe passage to her ancestral home, little did he suspect that Zena would entangle him in a rapturous struggle for the heart.

Dan Brown

The Lost Symbol

In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon "The Da Vinci Code, " Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. "The Lost Symbol" is a masterstroke of storytelling that finds famed symbologist Robert Langdon in a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., "The Lost Symbol" is an intelligent, lightning-paced story with surprises at every turn. This is Dan Brown's most exciting novel yet.

H.G. Wells

The Time Machine and the Invisible Man

Naguib Mahfouz

The Final Hour: A Modern Arabic Novel

A novel of Egypt's changing times and their effects on the lives of three generations of one family

Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz

Heart of the Night

Sonallah Ibrahim

Zaat

Zaat is a brilliant social commentary that provides keen insights into how Egypt has come to be the way it is today

Alaa Al Aswany

The Yacoubian Building

The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt -- where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent vision of society may yet prevail.Alaa Al Aswany's novel caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in 2002 and has remained the world's best selling novel in the Arabic language since.

Ayu Utami

Saman

Stephen Leather

Private Dancer

Pete wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is young, stunning, and a pole dancer. In a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs, and deception, Pete discovers that his own very private dancer is not all she claims to be. Far from being the love of his life, Joy is his own personal nightmare!

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Purgatorio = Purgatory

In the winter of 1976, Simon Cardoso is arrested by the military and is never seen again. Thirty years later, Emilia Dupuy, his wife, is stunned to find him in New Jersey. Her world, which had crumbled after losing him, is alight with life again. There is a caveat, however: for Simn Cardoso time stopped when he disappeared. Using this enigma as the foundation, Toms Eloy Martinez' story of the anguish of a lost and recovered love is masterfully tied to the sinister sense of unreality created by a regime.

Jose Saramago

El Viaje del Elefante = An Elephant's Journey

During the mid-sixteenth century, king John III of Portugal presented his cousin Maximilian, the archduke of Austria, with an Asian elephant. This novel recounts the epic voyage of Salomon the elephant, and the journey it undertook to satisfy royal whims. El viaje del elefante is a mix of real and imaginary facts that leads us to recognize reality and fiction as an indissoluble unity. It is also a reflection on the human condition, where humor and irony, marks of the ruthless clarity of the author, come together with the compassion with which Saramago views human weaknesses.

Sherwood Anderson, Mario Benedetti, Giovanny Boccaccio

Cuentos de Matrimonios = Short Stories on Marriage

Una seleccion que reune cuentos clasicos y modernos, y explora todas las facetas del vinculo matrimonial, las dichas y desdichas de una institucion que cambia pero sobrevive.

Clorinda Matto de Turner

Aves Sin Nido

Clorinda Matto de Turner's classic novel in a new, annotated edition. First published in 1889, Aves sin nido drew fiery protests for its unsparing expose of small town officials, judicial authorities, and priests who oppressed the native peoples of Peru. Matto de Turner was excommunicated by the Catholic Church, burned in effigy, and forced to emigrate to Argentina. In 1904, the novel was published in an English translation as with a modified ending. Successive English editions restored the original ending and translator's omissions. This edition follows the original version in Spanish, but comprises no less than 332 notes, adding more than 270 to the author's own 58 lexicographic annotations on Quecha and Spanish unusual terms, so necessary to grasp the real power of her prose. This annotated edition constitutes an important reading for all students of the indigenous cultures of South America.

Antonio Buero Vallejo

En La Ardiente Oscuridad

Ramsn J. Sender, Ramon Jose Sender, Ramn J. Sender

Rquiem Por Un Campesino Espaol

Mariano Azuela

Los de Abajo

Xu Xi

Habit of a Foreign Sky

Somewhere between Hong Kong and New York, life does an abrupt shift for Gail Szeto, when her mother, her last family member, is killed in an accident. For Gail, a mixed-race, single mother who had buried her young son less than two years prior, all she has left is a hard-won career at a global investment bank. Life rapidly goes into free fall for this woman with a complicated past, who was once so sure of her direction in life, who can now see no clear future path. Shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize, this novel offers a an international cast of characters in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Eileen Chang

The Fall of the Pagoda

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in mainland China. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the construction of selfhood in her other novels.

William Campbell Douglass

Into the Light

Dr. Douglass, a pioneering physician in alternative medicine, writes of his discoveries in photoluminescence, a therapy that uses light to heal.

L.J. Smith

Origins (Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries).

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