A lyrical and funny look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk.
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.
Overcoming disabling injuries, Vietnam vet Paul Bernard becomes an award-winning journalist and television newsman known for holding a mirror to American society.
Overcoming disabling injuries, Vietnam vet Paul Bernard becomes an award-winning journalist and television newsman known for holding a mirror to American society.
The stories in Ukrainian film director, writer, and dissident Oleh Sentsov's debut collection are as much acts of dissent as they are acts of creative expression.
A satirical look at the origins of power, A Zero-Sum Game uses the highly-charged election for the presidency of a residents' committee and the influence of a powerful stranger to both expose those in power and sympathize with the individuals who find themselves caught in the paradox of empowerment and impotence that is modern consumer society and the democratic state.
In this new international thriller from the author of The Geneva Option, UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay is drawn into a web of betrayal and intrigue that leads from deep within Americas military-industrial complex to the Middle East and beyond.
The award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Inspector Alan Banks novels, Peter Robinson dazzles with his first collection of short fiction, The Price of Love and Other Stories.
WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTIONWall Street Journal BEST BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOXs Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porterhero of her bestseller Black Water Risingreturn to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win.
In bestselling author John Gilstrap's ticking time bomb of a thriller, freelance operative Jonathan Grave penetrates a terrorist cell to stop the detonation of total mayhem on home ground .
