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Chilling Novels of Great Suspense
These twisty page-turners unravel mysteries in New York, Los Angeles, and the Sahara Desert, each with its own gratifying crescendo of terror.
Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
20th Century German Masterpieces
1968 New York and Nazi Germany as well as Weimar Berlin are resurrected in these masterworks of German literature.
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
History
These enduring works on the American and European past cover a wide range of history—political, intellectual, military, scientific, and cultural.
The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 by Paul Hazard
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood
Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen
The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the “History” by Henry Adams
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States by George R. Stewart
Biography
Superb writing about figures whose lives intersected with the major events of their respective centuries.
John Aubrey, My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski by Eric Karpeles
No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans Von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern
American Essayists
Three brilliant collections of American criticism.
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain by Dwight Macdonald
Henry Green’s War Novels
Seductive and vivid, whirling with war and love and scandal, Henry Green’s three succinctly titled novels offer up profundity and hilarity in equal measure.
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Historical Fiction
Historical events and people are rendered with precision and verve in these intriguing classics.
The Judges of the Secret Court by David Stacton
Augustus by John Williams
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
Omer Pasha Latas by Ivo Andric
The Mirador by Élisabeth Gille
Unforgettable Heroines
Ingenues, women, and witches pepper the pages of these profound classics.
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
Little Reunions by Eileen Chang
Graphic Novels
Lush, black-and-white illustrations produce dense worlds and captivating stories of growing up, going out, and investigating strange new states of being.
Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge
Piero by Edmond Baudoin
The New World: Comics from Mauretania by Chris Reynolds
Memoirs of World War II
From life in Italy to the bombed out streets of Warsaw in 1944, these three memoirs preserve the feeling of a time defined by mass destruction.
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski
Fantastical Tales
Strange and marvelous tales—these books will titillate and delight.
Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman
Moderan by David R. Bunch
Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Victorine by Maude Hutchins
Patrick Leigh Fermor Trilogy
Patrick Leigh Fermor—hero, historian, soldier, traveler, and author—is widely considered one of the greatest travel writers of all time.
A Time of Gifts: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Between the Woods and the Water: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Sale ends December 31, 2018.
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