Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he

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Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, and more Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traum

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A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell - weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. On the eve of her wed

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*New York Times* bestseller A Best Book of the Year *Los Angeles Times*, *Washington Post Book World*, *Chicago Tribune*, *St. Louis Post-Dispatch*, *Rocky Mountain News* Energetic, inventive, and ambitious . . . an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11. *Boston Globe* Jonathan Safran Foer

After getting his start as a writer of screenplays for silent movies, Homer Eon Flint turned to the then-nascent genre of science fiction, penning a number of influential short stories and novels in the process. Fans of golden-era sci-fi will delight in the pleasures of Flint's imaginative and tight

From the author of Number One bestseller ?Damaged? comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy?s recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past. Tayo arrives at Cathy?s with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought

Commemorating the centenary year of the death of suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davison, the first full professional production in more than thirty-five years of Pam Gems' feminist classic Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi. Four determinedly 'liberated' – and very different – women ricochet around a tiny s

**Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of _The Spectre of Alexander Wolf_** In a Paris underpass, dirty and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets; at night, he sleeps in a small, foetid crat

In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses,

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**Wonderful new drama from the bestselling author of CUSTARD TARTS AND BROKEN HEARTS**. Handsome Frank Rossi took Matty Gilbie away from her working class roots in Bermondsey, East London and promised her fame and fortune. In America, the Cockney Canary would become a movie star. As his wife, she