 | The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Release Date: October 18, 2011The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years’ War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents’ garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl sees a spangle of light and hears a powerful voice speak her name. Jehanne . The story of Jehanne d’Arc, the visio...
 |  | Drugs: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2012A modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man’s life of drug use. As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says, “J.R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutelyobservant, and captures the tragic absurdity of human life. . . . [H]e’sright up there with the best of them.”Thisfictionalized memoir is told in masterfully wry, Spartan prose with noapologies for a drug-user’s lifestyle, and instead looks back on ...
|  | Signora Da Vinci
Publication Date: January 6, 2009Following the “absolutely superb”(Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride) Mademoiselle Boleyn, novelist Robin Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina—the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci.Caterina was fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever. Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and had no recourse when her boy was taken away from her. But no one knew the secrets of her own childhood,...
|  | The Snows of Yesteryear (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Series: New York Review Books Classics Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw t...
|  | Friedrichsburg: Colony of the German Furstenverein (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche Indians. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his personal story with a fictional romance to capture the flavor of Fredericksburg, Texas, during...
|  | Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime
Release Date: April 24, 2012The Nobel Prize–winning author's brilliant trilogy of fictionalized memoirs—now available in one volume for the first timeFew writers have won as much critical acclaim and as many admirers in the literary world as J. M. Coetzee. Yet the celebrated author rarely spoke of himself until the 1997 arrival of Boyhood, a masterly and evocative tale of a young writer's beginnings. Continuing with the fiercely tender Youth and the innovative Summertime, Scenes from Provincial Life is a heartbreaking and often very funny portrait of the artist by one of the worl...
|  | Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet
Release Date: September 21, 2010In this riveting novel, beloved international bestselling author Deepak Chopra captures the spellbinding life story of the great and often misunderstood Prophet.Islam was born in a cradle of tribal turmoil, and the arrival of one God who vanquished hundreds of ancient Arabian gods changed the world forever. God reached down into the life of Muhammad, a settled husband and father, and spoke through him. Muhammad's divine and dangerous task was to convince his people to renounce their ancestral idols and superstitious veneration of multiple gods. From the firs...
|  | Me llaman la tequilera (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 25, 2012Esta novela retrata a una mujer extraordinaria: Lucha Reyes, la cantante que revoluciono para siempre la musica mexicana, brindandole el sello caracteristico que ha cautivado a generaciones dentro y fuera del pais. Combinando la emotividad de la ficcion y la documentacion precisa de la cronica, con testimonios y datos reales, Alma Velasco narra la trayectoria de este personaje que creo el genero de la musica de mariachi tal y como la conocemos actualmente. Me llaman la Tequilera no solo nos descubre a una cantante fuera de serie, sino a un personaje real, con...
|  | Tropic of Capricorn
Publication Date: June 4, 2012Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. It was also banned in Turkey. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer.The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working...
|  | The DeValera Deception
Publication Date: September 21, 2010In the summer of 1929 Weimar Germany still has a secret military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons beyond the Ural Mountains. Ultimately, both want to dismember the newly revived independent Poland, but to distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish Free State is placed at risk by conspirators and arms dealers intent on fomenting an IRA coup d'état.Winston Churchill is about to travel to North America when the new Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald asks him to handle a secret assignment. The IRA intends to buy large quantities of ...
|  | Sally Hemings: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Rediscovered Classics One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died—the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two ...
|  | Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
Release Date: August 3, 2010At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, “so the world may know that he loved me once.” The incredible vulnerability and heartache evident beneath the surface of this remark inspired Gaynor Arnold to write Girl in a Blue Dress, a dazzling debut novel inspired by the life of this tragic yet devoted woman. Arnold brings the spirit of Catherine Dickens to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo”...
|  | The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel
Publication Date: March 31, 2008Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China ripped apart by civil war and teetering on the brink of revolution: this novel tells the story of Pan Yuliang, one of the most talented—and provocative—Chinese artists of the twenti...
|  | The Ballad of Tom Dooley: A Ballad Novel
Release Date: September 13, 2011A literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley…The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The sensational elements in the case attracted national...
|  | Lionheart: A Novel
Release Date: January 2, 2013NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry.”—Margaret George A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers, Richard is crowned King of England and immediately sets off for the Holy Land. This is the Third Crusade, marked by internecine warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. Richard’s surviving brother, the younger John, is left...
|  | A Man of Parts
Release Date: September 15, 2011 A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and manyloves-of author H. G. Wells.H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of theWorlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic andcreative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics andfree love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact withthe most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of histime, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored anddisillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic DavidLodge has taken the compelling true s...
|  | The Wilder Shores of Love
Release Date: October 26, 2010Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkis...
|  | The Other Queen: A Novel
Release Date: September 16, 2008Now in paperback from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory— a unique novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening mary Queen of scots. For years Philippa Gregory’s readers have been asking her to write a novel about Mary Queen of Scots—a request she now fulfills with a tale as engrossing as any she has ever written. A heroine everyone recognizes but few truly know, Mary Queen of Scots is remembered mostly for her death on the scaffold than for her turbulent, romantic life. In The Other Queen, Philippa G...
|  | Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. In writing the novel, Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young ch...
|  | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Nonpareil Books)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Nonpareil Books (Book 109) ''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far. As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me.'' Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds and describes is the most primitiv...
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