The best days of my first year as a teenage girl were my encounters with Tezen, a lovely fish who always called me by my first name, Alicia, in the land of Haiti. I still remember our conversations, each of us desperately wanting to discover the universe of the other. There was a mystery somewhere for both of us to unearth. How do humans live? How do fishes live? Our questions sounded similar because our worlds were each unknown to one another. Nevertheless,...

In Hassouna Mosbahi's engrossing and keenly observed novel, he takes readers deep into one day in the life of Yunus, a Tunisian intellectual. A professor of French language and Flaubert specialist, Yunis is recently retired and separated from his wife, as he leaves the city to settle in the Tunisian coastal city of Nabeul. Searching for solitude, he hopes to spend the remainder of his life among the books he loves. On the day of his sixtieth birthday,...

"A lush and evocative novel of the Gilded Age period, brought vibrantly to life in this powerful work." - Anne Girard, author of Madame Picasso Pearl and Ginevra grow up in the era known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. One lives above the stairs, the other below. Surrounded by Astors and Vanderbilts, Pearl fills her days with teatime and shallow friendships, yearning for something more. A chance meeting with Mary Cassatt sparks her secret...

Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and was made into two movies. The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by Becker that have either never been translated into English or been published here in book form before. The title story, "The Wall," recounts two boys' risky adventure when they...

Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women's health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded...

Mierce, the English Midlands, 8th Century A.D. 'thelbald, King of Mierce, is a man of ambition. Having created much-needed stability within his domain, he now aspires to take the surrounding kingdoms to expand and fortify his own. Stealthy and cunning, 'thelbald manipulates other men of power to achieve his goals. The quest for power is not King 'thelbald's only passion in life. Despite not wishing to marry, he has an unabating lust for women and...

When a deadly plague seizes the walled town of Avignon, young Marius is determined to save his townsfolk from the raging pestilence. While leading the effort to combat the Black Death, Marius is distracted by a liaison with the mysterious Alice. Meanwhile, Pope Clément harbors a burning desire for vengeance on the boy's father. As death sweeps through the city, can Marius reconcile his passion with a duty to his wife, and his responsibility to the...

Vivant pleinement de ses désirs, Claire, cinquantenaire, est un médecin-dermatologue, mariée et mère de deux enfants. Elle a accompli une partie de ses rêves et a tout pour être heureuse, ayant élevé sa progéniture à l'image de sa vie, en suivant les préceptes de la pensée positive. Pourtant, ceux-ci ayant grandi, ses passions d'autrefois resurgissent : le chant et la comédie. Cependant, sa vie bascule encore une fois car au-delà de...

Notre famille était parfaite, et ma sœur et moi aussi. À six ans, je montais sur une chaise en public pour expliquer, sous l'œil attendri de mes parents, la différence entre éléphants d'Asie et d'Afrique. Ma mère nous aimait parce que nous étions comme elle ; il n'y aurait plus jamais de boucher slovaque dans la famille. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Jean-François Füeg est responsable des bibliothèques et des centres culturels de la Fédération...

First time in paperback, the story of a troubled child who opens the hearts of the people in a small town to their own capacity for love. It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California. Seven-year-old Luz Reyes, whose family was killed by death squads in her native land and whose mother is gravely ill, is the first to see it. Then Walt Adair,...