Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown.

Abraham Karpinowitz (1913-2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories.

Twenty-six-year-old college graduate, artist, and employee of the Ministry of Art and Culture, Hasti Nourian aspires to be a "e;new woman"e;-independent-minded, strong-willed, and in control of her own destiny.

Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century.

First published in 1911, Ameen Rihani's Book of Khalid is widely considered the first Arab American novel.

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval.

In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities.

New Mexico, 1985.

Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives.

A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco's greatest narrative writers.

These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America.

An electrifying debut novel about what happens when the one who should love you the most becomes your worst enemy.

'Curious Incident' meets 'Catcher in the Rye' in this crime-noir debut.

When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what's in store for them.

Three dramatic novels about the power of love, from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox.

Enter the strange world of the Elliott family: it will change you forever.

The carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer.

'A boisterous romp that spotlights serious social issues' DAILY MAIL'A Down Under Demon Copperhead.

One of Ray Bradbury's classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.

With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary Morocco-and the city of Marrakech-told through the eyes of the hapless Rahhal Laaouina, a.

Since her debut on Food Network in 2002 with the hit program Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis has been enticing Americans with her updated twists on Italian favorites.

As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria.

An accomplished novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Richard Power (1928-1970) was most well-known for his 1969 novel The Hungry Grass.

Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love.

The first anthology of its kind in the West, Contemporary Iraqi Fiction gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into English.

Gabriel Mathis, a twenty-three-year-old aspiring fantasy writer and reluctant Russophile, travels to Ukraine to teach English and meets the love of his life: an international arms dealer very much out of his league.

First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one family and its many descendants.

By turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast.

Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life.

Samir Naqqash's stirring novel Tenants and Cobwebs nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad.

Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, this finely constructed epic traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent beyond the reach of a predatory uncle.

First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor.

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception.

A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology.

In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City.

The hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling New Adult novel, THE EDGE OF NEVER - a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestsellerHe was taking the long road.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

Emotional, romantic and uplifting - your perfect pick-me-up!

Fifteen-year-old Justin Lyle does not see in himself the qualities he admires in heroes like his paternal grandfather, awarded a medal of honor during World War II, or in the fictional heroes of television and comic books.

A boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland.

In The Salmiya Collection, Loomis celebrates the essence of everyday life in a little-known part of the world.

"e;Who Will Die Last?

The lasting charm of Kaufman's stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition.

The stories in Allegiance and Betrayal are set in cars, on top of a water tower, in a bar, on a fishing boat, at a family farm, and at a swimming pool.

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Return to a world of magic and adventure from best selling author Raymond E.

The New York Times number 1 SIZZLING Romance Adult bestseller'A hot and sexy read with a cracking story line and fantastic characters - what more could you want?

From the bestselling author of WAIT FOR YOU, prepare to be blown away by her next New Adult story of love, lust and longing'A wonderful cast of characters that will make you laugh, swoon, and cry.