"Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday" muses Gertrude Stein in "To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays". Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book "T...

In "The Shadow-Boxing Woman", a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell's neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in sea...

One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests, a doctor is crossing the ridge in Austria from Traich to Foding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it's not a corps...

"A Man Could Stand Up", the third volume of "Parade's End", brings Ford's characters to the "crack across the table of History", across which lie their uncertain post-war futures. Divided into three parts, the novel is a kaleidoscopic vision of socie...

After the publication of "Butcher's Moon" in 1974, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone". And readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad...

The sixteenth Parker novel, "Butcher's Moon" is more than twice as long most of the master heister's adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where h...

After the bloodbath of "Butcher's Moon", the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone". And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed awa...

Not for sale in Estonia! A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, "The Leg of Lamb" brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Peret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from th...

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow shows the doct...

One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a look at his most famous works of fiction.