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Poetry for those whom are grieving for loved ones that lost their lives while serving in Vietnam.

Brought to you by Penguin. Fury is very lustful A body concealing its heart’s desire Has a certain texture A tang or an edge if you will That the openhearted cannot match & when exactly does the deceitful Heart open? At climax. —from ‘The Hanged Man’ The Rose navigates the intersection...

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE The American Open Road offers a rich exploration of how the mythos of the open road has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. Beginning with the post–World War II boom that solidified car culture as central to American life...

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands. Allerdings ummantelt er seine Geschichten ebenso gerne mit einem Grotesk-Phantastischen Gewand, so dass man zum einen nie weiß was als nächstes kommt und zum anderen immer das Gefühl vermittelt bekommt hautnah dabei zu sein, wobei einem die beschriebenen Szenen sofort vor dem geistigen Auge vorüberzuziehen scheinen.

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded...

Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.

Carmen Larrañaga parece tener todo en contra. Ante la plaga de violencias que padecen las mujeres, ha decidido lanzarse como candidata a diputada federal por su ciudad. Sin embargo, los dirigentes de su partido—el Partido Democrático del Pueblo Bueno—le niegan su apoyo, pues impulsarán al oportunista Vega Fernández, cuyas alianzas se extienden como tentáculos hasta el crimen organizado. Pero éste no será su mayor obstáculo. En su primer acto de campaña como candidata independiente, Carmen recibe dos balazos de un tirador furtivo, que la dejan malherida.

Buenos Aires, 1978. A dos años del golpe de Estado, miles de personas son recluidas en centros clandestinos de detención. Julio, joven hijo de un poderoso industrial, es uno de ellos, un «desaparecido» más. Madrid, 2000. Julio se llama ahora Jorge Luis. Durante una salida fortuita, se encuentra con Morales y despierta en él la voz de Julio, que exige venganza. Se introduce en la vida del exmilitar para destruirlo, y desarrolla hacia el hombre que debe matar un afecto que no tuvo por su propio padre.

The daughter of a hard-working restaurant owner, Louise Brooks always sees the best in people—and in helping them no matter how difficult her own life gets. She's lived through tragic loss and running the family business on her own, even in the face of a failed marriage. So, she's delighted when she finds a best friend in Della Thornton, a woman struggling with bad breaks and unlucky romances. When Louise's father and her prosperous second husband suddenly pass away, Louise takes Della in and makes her the restaurant’s right-hand woman as it grows more successful than ever . . .

Like a gender-flipped Saltburn set amidst the moss-draped, haunted beauty of Savannah, this intoxicating blend of Southern suspense and modern witchcraft from bestselling author Emily Carpenter casts a spell of class, power, and possession. In a city where ghosts linger in the moss and money...

In this captivated novel, a young Korean American woman attempts to distance herself from her family in order to forge an authentic future—but a violent act forces her to see that she’ll always be implicated with their actions and they with hers. "A pulsating signal from the liminal zone...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Riss M. Neilson writes tender, vibrant, breath-stealing romance.”—Emily Henry Exes discover they’ve both inherited the restaurant they love in this sparkling, emotional new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of A Love Like the Sun. Olivia owes...

El eje del argumento es un conflicto amoroso: Fortunata, una mujer de clase baja, se enamora de Juanito Santa Cruz, un señorito burgués, que la seduce pero se casa con Jacinta, burguesa de familia rica de comerciantes. Junto a las desventuras amorosas del trío, al que se sumará Maximiliano Rubín –antítesis de Juanito y con quien se casará Fortunata–, se entretejen muchas otras historias que hacen de Fortunata y Jacinta una novela de novelas.

The derogatory Mandarin phrase Ménggǔ dàifu, Mongol healer, means charlatan. It is what a celebrated qigong master calls his quiet neighbor, Grandma Wú. He has status, credentials, and devoted followers. Wú has none of these, and yet people find healing in her presence.

Año 1014. Tras derrotar a los búlgaros en la batalla de Klyuch, el emperador bizantino Basilio II ordena arrancar los ojos de los quince mil soldados del ejército enemigo, dejando tuerto a uno de cada cien hombres para que guíen a los ciegos de regreso a casa. Durante semanas, una columna de desarrapados recorre a tientas el largo camino hasta la capital búlgara, donde los recibe el zar Samuel, que ante el terrible espectáculo de sus hombres humillados, cae fulminado por la pena.

Clark Thomas has a lot on his plate. A new book. A beautiful woman far from home. A missing fiancé. And a mysterious dead body plunges him headfirst into his latest real-world Myrtle Beach investigation. As he unravels the case involving renowned food bloggers, restaurant reviews, and The Grand Strand, Clark learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye–and more to his wife’s death. And the one dead body may not be the last. With his world turned upside down after uncovering new information about Autumn’s death, Clark must get to the bottom of this mystery while he still can...

In the blistering heat of rural Mississippi, the Bundren family loads their dead matriarch, Addie, into a handmade coffin and sets out on a bleak, often darkly comic journey to bury her in her hometown of Jefferson. Each mile of flooded rivers, broken bones, starving mules, and simmering resentments peels back another layer of this family's grief, faith, and desperation, as husband Anse and children Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman tell the story in their own, often clashing voices.

"An impressive blend of history, folklore, and imagination."—Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author An outsider to the Carolina hills inherits a gift that could change everything for her village on the verge of dying, from the author NPR said "writes with a deep knowledge of the enduring...

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West. Before Larry McMurtry became one of the...

The Raven and Other Favorite Poems is a collection of Poe’s most famous and haunting lyrical works. The poems explore themes of loss, beauty, death, memory, longing, and the supernatural, all delivered in Poe’s signature musical, rhythmic style. This collection gathers the poems that made Poe one of the most recognizable voices in American Romanticism and Gothic literature.