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In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his...

Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L Magazine Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers will be available in summer 2018. Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established...

Spirited American stories gathered together for the first time From the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the very heartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previously uncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope and sense of epic adventure that epitomize Louis...

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca...

Her path to the throne is paved with treason.... 1330. Philippa of Hainault may be married to King Edward III, but she’s penniless and powerless. England quivers in the clutches of the Dowager Queen Isabella and her darkly ambitious lover Lord Mortimer while her husband rots in jail, a prisoner at Mortimer’s hand. It will take a courageous young man to emerge from the shadows and rise up against this formidable pair. Philippa won’t sit back and see Edward puppeteered. She is determined to see justice done. 

Read by Hugh Fraser Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook The Mysterious Affair at Styles Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now in a fully restored edition that features a “missing chapter” along with commentary...

Read by Hugh Fraser Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook The Mysterious Affair at Styles Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from...

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. Exploring themes of restlessness...

Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat...

Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to act the Great Detective Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and, due to her dislike of chocolates, was the only one to not...

Mr. Parker Pyne is having trouble trying to get to Beirut, what with his rusty linguistic skills and the less-than-comfortable travelling arrangements. But, with the help of a German pilot, Herr Schlagel, he is soon able to get his bearings. Herr Schlagel confesses that his thoughts are...

Multicast narration featuring Hugh Fraser, Isla Blair, and Simon Vance Hercule Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories—a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary...

A novelization of the classic Christie play Spider's Web read by Hugh Fraser Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is adept at spinning tales. "Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?" she muses. Soon after, she has her chance...

A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal's mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales.

Could a woman die of fright alone? And who is the sender of a most grizzly package - two human ears in a box? Holmes and Watson tackle a whole host of new mysteries before Baker Street's most famous detective finally leaves London for the quiet of a Sussex farm. But one final adventure puts an end to his retirement. As Britain stands poised on the brink of the First World War, can Sherlock Holmes keep a terrible new super-weapon from falling into the enemy's hands?

It’s 1865 and a band of renegade deserters left over from the American Civil War abduct newlywed Judith Johansen and head to the wilds of Rupert’s Land, soon to become Western Canada. They are about to find out that they have made a huge mistake. Judith is the granddaughter of Moses Munro, a wily old mountain man who survived as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains during the 1820s and ‘30s.

Set in the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, All Gold Canyon is at once a depiction of the quotidian realities of a hard-working gold miner's life, a meditation on the fragility of nature in the face of man's ambition, and a thrilling, no-holds-barred tale of Wild West violence.

Yeni Dünya, Sabahattin Ali'nin 1936 ile 1942 yılları arasında gazete ve dergilerde yayımlanmış 13 hikâyesinden oluşmaktadır. ''O gece zor tutmuşlar. Obanın yanındaki ormanlarda sabahacak dolaşmış. Gün ağarırken Gök Büvet'e inmiş. Bakmış oralarda kimsecikler yok... Suyun yanından geçip gidermiş, bir de ne görsün, Hasan'ın dallı çevresi, koca çınarın su içindeki dallarından birine takılmış, yüzüp duruyor... Onu oradan aldığı gibi koynuna sokmuş... Dere boyunda bir aşağı, bir yukarı koşup: 'Hasanım! Ses ver de yanına varayım!' diye bağırmaya başlamış.

Toplumsal ve siyasal kimliğinin yanı sıra yazarlığını da kanıtlayan Yaşar Seyman, "iki gözüm kalemim" diye başlıyor bu kez ve "ülkenin zenginliği, yüz akı, bilge" kadınları, "ruhları yaralı" kadınları, "dünyayı değiştiren, simge" kadınları, "kendini yeniden yaratan" kadınları anlatıyor okurlarına. Büyü(l)(c)ü kentlere göçlerle savrulmuş insanları resmederken göçmen kaleminin gücünü de kanıtlıyor. ZİNE Yeniden, yeni bir yola çıkmaktır yaşamak!

Bir Kudüs Öyküsü kavimler tarihinin biraz gerçek ama daha çok fantastik ve alabildiğince etkileyici öyküsüdür... Hemen surlara gidelim, dedi Abel Phittim, Buzi Ben Levi'yle Ferisi Simeon'a, Temmuz ayının onuncu gününde, dünyanın üç bin dokuz yüz kırk bir senesinde. Hemen Benyamin kapısının yanındaki, Davud şehrindeki, sünnetsizler kampının karşısındaki surlara gidelim. Çünkü şimdi gün doğduğundan, bu dördüncü nöbetçinin son saati ve putperestler Pompey'in vaadini yerine getirmek üzere bizi kurbanlık kuzularla bekliyorlardır.