A Book of Common PrayerA shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean "[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful glows with a golden aura of well wrought classical tragedy. Los Angeles Times Book Review Grace Strasser Mendana controls much of Boca Grande's wealth and

turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery

Volume two presents Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels

following a quartet called The Melodeers on a trip to Atlanta under the auspices of the Progressive Party

a friendly Bangladeshi poet living in exile

Inscribed by Gill on the endpaper

Malu Halasa

In these engaging and erudite essays

whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau

Jonathan Schell accompanied the operation from its beginning to its successful but dismal end

searching for Italia

his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary "stew" an uproariously funny melange of journal entries

to find out something essential about the future and living for it