Product Description: In the short novels that make up this beautiful collection, Mary Gordon presents a quartet of finely rendered, emotionally resonant stories. Here we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her last days as a transplant in New York City; a vulnerable American graduate student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title, who gets more out of life than most; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high schooler in the Midwest...read more

Product Description: A thought-provoking and darkly witty novel about freedom, motherhood, greed, and religion—a surprising new direction from the controversial author of Men, Women & Children and The Average American Male.Chad Kultgen has established himself as one of the most honest and candid chroniclers of human relationships working today...read more

Product Description: The author of Pile of Bones and Path of Smoke returns to the world of the Parallel ParksIn the city of Regina, they’re just graduate students. But after midnight—in Wascana Park—they are transported to a land where they can be anything: bards and archers, heroes or monsters…...read more

“If you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then you’ve come to the right place.” ― Nicole Krauss André Aciman has been hailed as “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York magazine), a “brilliant chronicler of the disconnect . . . between who we are and who we wish we might have been” (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of “fiction at its most supremely interesting” (Colm Tóibín). Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation ― a moving story of an immigrant’s remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. It’s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ― Kalaj for short ― for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student’s life with his denunciations of the American obsession with “all things jumbo and ersatz” ― Twinkies, monster television sets, all-you-can-eat buffets ― and his outrageous declarations on love and the art of seduction. The student finds it hard to resist his new friend’s magnetism, and before long he begins to neglect his studies and live a double life: one in the rarefied world of Harvard, the other as an exile with Kalaj on the streets of Cambridge. Together they carouse the bars and cafés around Harvard Square, trade intimate accounts of their love affairs, argue about the American dream, and skinny-dip in Walden Pond. But as final exams loom and Kalaj has his license revoked and is threatened with deportation, the student faces the decision of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New World assimilation or risk it all to defend his Old World friend. Harvard Square is a sexually charged and deeply American novel of identity and aspiration at odds. It is also an unforgettable, moving portrait of an unlikely friendship from one of the finest stylists of our time.

Product Description: This thrilling mystery is the story of Keith Jessup, a PhD student at Oxford, whose professor is murdered before delivering a lecture disclosing Milton's own explanation of his great epic poem, Paradise Lost.  In his stead, Keith takes up the quest to find the hidden Milton Manuscript and finally unravel the long lost meaning of the poem...read more

Product Description: In Wascana Park, they’re ordinary university students. But after midnight, when the park transforms into the magical kingdom of Anfractus, they become warriors, bards, and archers in a real-life role-playing game… The company of heroes has thwarted the plan of the power-hungry basilissa to conquer Anfractus, but not without a cost...read more

Product Description: A brutally murdered family man without an enemy in the world. A box full of charming letters home, written a century ago by an unknown female worker at the famed Tiffany studios. Historic Green-Wood cemetery, where a decrepit mausoleum with stunning stained glass windows is now off limits...read more

Product Description: Broke and desperate to move out of his ex’s apartment, grad student Gary Harper answers an ad in the school paper looking for models.But the kind of “models” the business is looking for isn’t quite what Gary expected—it’s for an underground gay wrestling video company! Intrigued, he participates in the audition process and falls for his trainer, an older man who just isn’t ready for a relationship...read more

Product Description: In modern day Mexico City, a young graduate student of anthropology, Stefan Marquez Calle, hears a surprising confession from his dying aunt. Her revelation sends him on a journey of discovery that flings him backwards in time to fifteenth century Spain...read more

Product Description: In one world, they’re ordinary university students. In another world, they are a company of heroes in a place of magic and myth called Anfractus… The Cree called the area Oscana, “pile of bones,” a fertile hunting ground where game abounded...read more

This book was previous published as THE ADAMAS BLUEPRINT.THE EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. THE RESEARCH SOUNDLY DISMISSED. BUT SOMEONE IS HUNTING DOWN THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE A YOUNG CHEMIST HAS UNEARTHED . . . IN AN EXHILARATING THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ARK.Chemistry grad student Kevin Hamilton is sure his advisor Michael Ward's death in a suspicious fire was no accident.The young Ph.D. candidate received a cryptic message from Ward just before the fatal blaze--a warning that their recent collaboration on a supposedly failed experiment had actually brought about one of the most important discoveries of the century: Adamas, a chemical process worth billions, and one with the potential to topple entire industries. Now on the run with his girlfriend, Erica, the two must elude relentless assassins long enough to protect the top-secret information, thwart a global conspiracy, and save their own lives before time runs out.

Product Description: “If you like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then you’ve come to the right place.” — Nicole Krauss André Aciman has been hailed as “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York magazine), a “brilliant chronicler of the disconnect ...read more

Product Description: Take Wing and Fly Here is the first novel in Priyanka Kumar's New West Trilogy, which explores our changing relationship with the outdoors in the American West. Set in Southern California, this delightful novel about birding tells the story of a Ph...read more

Product Description: Unburying history can have unintended consequences. In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato's teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica -- a young widow, overage history PhD candidate, and product of blue-collar Brooklyn -- is drawn into the mystery when she learns that the skeleton is of an unknown teenage girl and that it was hidden there within living memory...read more

Product Description: Zarathustra Must Die is a fictional memoir of a graduate student's odyssey through the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche—a journey that is far more than purely intellectual. Through many states of consciousness, Dorian Alexander finally comes to realize the nature of time and its role in human existence...read more

Product Description: A murder at the Taj Mahal. A kidnapping in a sacred city. A desperate chase through a cliffside monastery. All in the pursuit of a legend that could link the world’s great religious faiths.In 1887, a Russian journalist made an explosive discovery in a remote Himalayan monastery only to be condemned and silenced for the heresy he proposed...read more

Product Description: A nail-biting novel of domestic suspense from a best-selling author - When Morgan Adair arrives at the small seaside town of West Briar on the Long Island shore, she is looking forward to attending the baptism of her new godson, Drew...read more

Picture a world intricately entwined with our own yet separate, pulsing with the raw energy and vivid color of Celtic myth come to life. In this first book of the Song of Albion trilogy, wolves are prowling the streets of Oxford, a Green Man is haunting the Highlands, and Lewis Gillies is face to face with an ancient mystery.