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The minus times collected: twenty years / thirty issues (1992?2012)
Begun as an open letter to strangers and fellow misfits, The Minus Times grew to become a hand-typed literary magazine that showcased the next generation of American fiction. Contributors include Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Patrick DeWitt, and Wells Tower, with illustrations by David Eggers and Br...
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Beatus ille (novela / a novel)
Edición conmemorativa del 30.º aniversario de la publicación de Beatus Ille, la primera novela de Antonio Muñoz Molina. Juego de falsas apariencias y medias verdades que terminan por desvelar una sola verdad última, Beatus Ille reveló a uno de los jóvenes narradores más rigurosos y mejor dotados ...
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Una reina indomable / the royal rebel
De la galardonada y exitosa autora Elizabeth Chadwick llega una épica historia de amor ambientada en la alta caballería, la guerra mortal, la devastadora peste y la feroz rivalidad del siglo XIV: la primera de dos partes que narra la extraordinaria historia de una mujer que pasó de ser una rebeld...
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Maridos (relatos) / husbands (short stories)
Maridos infieles, eternas enamoradas que siempre perdonan, viudas fantasiosas... todos se dan cita en estas páginas donde se tejen historias sobre el amor y el difícil arte de la convivencia. Los protagonistas de estas estupendas historias conjuran el paso del tiempo, espantan las tristezas de lo...
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Mujeres de ojos grandes (relatos) / women with big eyes (short stories)
Ángeles Mastretta retrata la fuerza del carácter de mujeres que nacieron con estrella, y nos muestra un universo de emancipación y sabiduría. En Mujeres de ojos grandes, lo femenino irrumpe en la cultura para ensanchar sus límites e iluminar el camino. A las mujeres que protagonizan estos relatos...
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Path
Many of us enjoy walking along a familiar path. Our spirits lift as our mind settles and our soul is restored by the beauty of the natural landscape.In Path a solitary figure walks along ancient pathways, between slender trees, across open hills. As the earth itself provides support and reassuran...
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The pig trilogy
Joseph Caldwell’s rollicking Pig Trilogy, a charmingly romantic three-part tale of an American in contemporary Ireland
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While we were waiting
A vibrant novel that portrays the lives of an American woman fleeing the trauma of abuse in her childhood and an Iraqi refugree fleeing the trauma of war, each in the midst of childbirth, that Joyce Carol Oates praises as” breathtaking, heartrending, and finally uplifting” and Richard Ford exclai...
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31 paradiso a novel
When Francine Ephesians Didwell loses the love of her life, she is forced to reconnect with her estranged family. She's led two lives up until now, one with her evangelical charismatic family, and another of emancipated rebellion with her lover. Bereaved, Francine relocates to 1990s Venice Beach ...
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Queen for a day
We know by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if we told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know—until at last Danny’s behavior becomes so strange even she can’t ignore it. After her son’s diagnosis Mimi finds herself in a world ...
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Blackmailer's guide to love a novel
One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to work as the assistant to Austin Bloch, an editor responsible for refining and publishing the work of some of America’s most este...
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The kaminsky cure
“Well, here I am at five and three quarters. It’s Christmas 1939 in a little Austrian village in Hitler’s Third Reich and I’m just beginning to notice things. Like what my brothers and sisters are about and why my parents are often crying and my father usually shouting when he isn’t crying. I thi...
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The skimming stone
The Skimming Stone is a beautifully illustrated short story about courage, self-belief and optimism.If you had the chance to do the thing you always wanted to do, would you dare? Could you ignore the doubts and follow your heart – even at the risk of failure? It is only when we have the courage t...
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The pig did it
What the pig did – in Joseph Caldwell’s charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland – is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance . . . utter pandemonium.Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell’s pig dis...
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The pig goes to hog heaven
Of The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven, the third and climactic entry in Joseph Caldwell’s charmingly boisterous Pig trilogy, one might well repeat the most famous words of the great non-Irish wordsmith and baseball catcher Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Kitty McCloud, the trilogy’s leading l...
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The body outside the kremlin a novel
Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor while others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultur...
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The mapmaker's daughter a novel
Narrating the spectacular story of her rise to the pinnacle of imperial power, Queen Mother Nurbanu, on her sickbed, is determined to understand how her bond with the greatest of all Ottoman sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent, shaped her destiny – not only as the wife of his successor but as the a...
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A storm in the stars
In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot air balloon lands not far from the Thames. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his t...
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The rabbi in the attic
In an age of minimalists, Eileen Pollack is a writer of rare generosity. The women and men in The Rabbi in the Attic are complex, vivid people to whom something happens. Their stories take place in small towns in the Catskills, a laboratory of mutant mice in nowhere Tennessee, the backwoods of Ne...
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Before she sleeps
In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as...
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The pig comes to dinner a novel
Back to his familiar mischief is the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It, the best-selling first novel in Joseph Caldwell’s Pig Trilogy. But in Mr. Caldwell’s entertaining porcine sequel, The Pig Comes to Dinner, the porker has some more serious business to atte...
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A cat to kill for
When a classic car dealer learns that the client who commissioned him to restore a seemingly ordinary old Jaguar has been found dead, he joins with the victim's quirky sister to investigate. They are drawn into a dangerous world in search of a murderer ...
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The girls
These days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet it’s rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives u...
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The light of seven days a novel
Dina would be dancing lead roles with the famous Kirov ballet, but growing antisemitism interferes with her career, forcing her to flee to Philadelphia, which seems like her best chance until she finds out that success in her new life is very different than she expected.Living with her Babby afte...
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The franklin avenue rookery for wayward babies and other stories
These ten stories are irresistible because their author is both fearless and ambitious. Newman switches points of view effortlessly, brings us to far-flung regions of the world, and has an uncanny, authentic grasp of cultures. We travel from Varanasi to Tijuana, from Rome to Lhasa, to New Orleans...
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The house on moon lake
Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel — The House on Moon Lake — in the j...
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Pleasure palace
At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm’s acclaimed work has been ch...
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A season for martyrs
The U.S. literary debut of an up-and-coming Pakistani novelist and journalist. The last three months of Benazir Bhutto’s life — from her arrival back in Pakistan on October 18, 2007, to her untimely death in a shooting-cum-suicide bombing on December 27th– is told through the eyes of a young tele...
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Clara's heart
Originally published to international acclaim and the basis for the beloved film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Joseph Olshan’s prize-winning novel charts the profound, rare friendship between a wise Jamaican woman named Clara and David, a twelve-year-old boy adrift in the wake of his parents’ broken ...
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Love, death & rare books
Chas. Johnson & Sons, a venerated rare bookstore in urban Chicago, has been a family operation for three generations―grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the Internet and ...
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Limits of the world a novel
The Chandaria family—emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi—have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their son, ...
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In the field a novel
In 1923, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. Painfully rebuffed by a girl she longs for, and in flight from her own confusing sexuality, Kate finds refuge in the calm rationality of biology: its vision of a deeply interconnected wor...
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Modern art a novel
Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters for whom art was a secular religion—worth any amount of struggle and sacrifice for its promise of redemption. She is also the widow of Clay Madden, who revolutionized American art, became a near-mythic figure, and died in a drunken car ...
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The monsoon war: a novel
In an unnamed Middle Eastern country, government leaders maintain a stranglehold over women’s lives and freedoms. But in a neglected southern province, a secret female resistance movement has been forming for years. Now, the Hamiyat are preparing for battle, as they plan a daring attack on the pe...
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The unknown woman of the seine a novel
In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman’s expression attracted crowds but no claimant, a...
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Dracula
An eBook edition of Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula with a new extended introduction on vampire myths and legends by leading vampire expert Dr Tina Rath. The introduction explores the development of Vampire myths and legends from early sixteenth-century stories to the current teenage vampire ...
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The hallelujah side
"It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening." So begins the uproarious and tender tale of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa, who believe fervently in the imminent ...
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Little miseries a novel
Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that—little—and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about—old family lore about a great,...
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Infinite dimensions
In Infinite Dimesions, her first collection after winning the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for Please Come Back to Me, Jessica Treadway writes about the themes of fidelity, betrayal, and self-delusion as she portrays what William Faulkner called “the human heart in conflict with itse...
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American stranger
Brought up in a secularized Jewish household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows little about her parents’ past. She knows they were World War II Jewish refugees who were able to escape Germany with precious family heirlooms that are constant reminders of a lost life and a world abo...
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Without her a novel
In this probing, Ferrante-esque novel, a disappearance of a life long friend becomes urgent and bewildering. When her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her family house in the south of France, everyone assumes that Claudia, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school and C...
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The professor of immortality a novel
Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so devas...
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You would have told me not to
These stories (and one novella) arrive in the midst of the #Metoo movement. They examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women, relationships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness―and in particular, from masculinity at its most toxic and m...
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Listening for ghosts
Four stories (three of which appeared in the New Yorker) and a novella bring wit, compassion, and dizzying absurdity to facing life and death across generations. In “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,” carefree boys running in apparent midwestern freedom are revealed to be as uncared for by ...
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Lazarus rising a novel
This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by the 92-year-old Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were every day events. One cold winter night, when the artist, Dempsey Coates, is on the way home to her loft, she encounters a ...
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Truthtelling
With her new dazzling collection of short fiction Schwartz has propelled herself to the front rank of inventive short story writers such as George Sanders and David Means Her characters are indefatigable New Yorkers whose long-established routines are thwarted by a swerve of fate or a mishap or a...
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The gretchen question
The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with the son who’s punishing her for withholding his father’s true identity. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves ...
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The opposite of chance
At thirty-two, Betsy is sheltered. Sheltered by a close-knit family, Catholic schools, college in her hometown, and a marriage at 20. It takes the discovery of her husband’s serial philandering to open her eyes and push her out of the nest. It’s the summer of 1981, Betsy grabs a backpack and a fe...
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The place you belong
All her life, Joselene Grace Matthews has dreamed of the father she never met. She had been told he died before her birth. But when her mother dies, Josie discovers that her parents had never married, and that her father is alive and well. She vows to search for him, and, locating him, presents h...
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The linden tree
0245, 6 December 1941. USS Swordfish spots the Japanese strike force 600 miles from Pearl Harbor. In this alternative history adventure, Japan cancels the attack, preventing U.S. entry into the war. Free from American interference, Hitler's scientists perfect an operational atomic bomb. Demonstra...
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Compromised journey
Throughout her story, you will see the mighty hand of God protecting Elizabeth as she struggles through one catastrophe after another.
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A measure of mercy
May 1865, a southern young lady tends a handsome wounded Yankee, telling no one. Sam’s emotions and dreams war with her hate. Yankee returns looking for his angel of mercy.
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Shadow's ember
“It’s true. You were built from villains, but…” Maker raised a solemn finger into the air. “That doesn’t have to stop you from being heroes. One day, you will twist the Darkness’ own powers back on itself and conquer it once for all.” Tirak is a simple cybri. Sure, sure, he can sculpt the cur...
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Unassigned lands
In 1875 the James-Younger gang hi-jacked a Mexican Gold shipment and fled across Texas to the Indian Territory. With a posse on their tail and a blizzard threatening, they buried almost 200 gold bars in the Wichita Mountains and slipped away. Unfortunately, Jesse’s gang was wiped out six months l...
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Ethan park
Why would a man who has everything in life; a loving family, a successful career, and plenty of wealth; put a gun to his head to end it all?Ethan Park focused his entire life on reaching all his goals. He said what he would do, and he did it—just as his grandfather, Grandy, had taught him. The sp...
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