A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of

This illustrated edition includes stories by Narine Abgaryan, previously published in the collection 'Zulali'. They are all about the fragile world of people. About loneliness and how important it is when someone is around. About the love that expands the

The history of Italy in the last thirty years through the prism of friendship between two Neapolitan boys. Historical, educational, social novel. Massimiliano Virgilio The action of the novel by the Italian writer and journalist Massimiliano Virgilio 'Ame

Voyager 1 was a message in a bottle. Our way of letting the galaxy know we existed. That we were out here if anyone wanted to find us. Over the next forty years, the probe flew past Jupiter and Saturn before it drifted into the void, swallowed up by a sil

No man is impervious to the poisons of the crown. Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary and makes her his new Queen. However, though the matter of the succession should

Laurent Gounel is one of the five most popular fiction writers in France. His new book is called The Day I Learned to Live. Imagine that one fine day a gypsy, looking at your palm, becomes frightenedly silent. And only after persistent requests do you get

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're rea

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love-all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome to Christine's

You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is livi

Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Doblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.

Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds,...

Everything in this life has to be paid for. The protagonist of our book paid for the fleeting minutes of fame, wealth and much more. As he later understood, neither money nor fame can replace the feelings experienced by a person experiencing love, joy, hu