Product Catalog

Fiction A-L

Series:

• Akashic Books Noir Series
• Dr. Siri Paiboun
  
  

  Individual titles:

• A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge - by Josh Neufeld
• The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God - by Chinua Achebe
• The Age of Innocence - by Edith Wharton
• Alentejo Blue - The story of the picturesque village of Mamarrosa is told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through
• Ali and Nino - by Kurban Said
• All the Names - by Jose Saramago
• The American - Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris.
• The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction - Features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world
• Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard - Five stories and novella
• Annie John - by Jamaica Kincaid
• Arundel
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord - by Peter Matthiessen
• Atlas of Impossible Longing - by Arundhati Roy
• That Awful Mess On the Via Merulana - A rich social novel, a comic opera, an act of political resistance, a blazing feat of baroque wordplay, and a haunting story of life and death
• Backlands: The Canudos Campaign - by Euclides da Cunha
• Baltasar and Blimunda - by Jose Saramago
• Bangkok Haunts - by John Burdett
• The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, the Snapper, and the Van - by Roddy Doyle
• Beasts of No Nation - A young boy in a West African nation is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country.
• Beaufort - by Ron Leshem
• Before the House Burns - by Mary O'Donoghue
• Beijing Coma - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• A Bend in the River - by V. S. Naipaul
• Beneath the Lion's Gaze - by Maaza Mengiste
• Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris/Goodbye to Berlin - by Christopher Isherwood
• Best European Fiction 2012 - edited by Aleksandar Hemon
• Between the Assinations - by Aravind Adiga
• The Black Book - A brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity
• Black Mamba Boy - by Nadifa Mohamed
• Blackberry Wine - From the author of Chocolat comes an intoxicating tale of love lost and found, set in a small French village.
• Blackwater - by Kerstin Ekman
• Blue Shoes and Happiness: Book 7 - Continues the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective.
• The Boat - by Nam Le
• The Bone People - Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage.
• Bone Worship - by Elizabeth Eslami
• The Bonfire of the Vanities - Sherman McCoy is one of Wall Street's top bond salesmen--then one day a bizarre incident in the Bronx thrusts him into the center of every racial, economic, sexual, social, and political tension in New York City....
• Book of Night Women - by Marlon James
• Bordering Fires - Combines writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, and presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation.
• Born in Tibet - by Chogyam Trungpa
• Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - by Junot Diaz
• Bright Lights, Big City - The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
• Brothers - A sweeping family saga that follows the parallel paths of two brothers born to different mothers.
• Bruno Chief of Police - by Martin Walker
• By Night in Chile - by Roberto Bolano
• By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - The story of a woman and her lover facing life's most difficult choices on a trip through the French Pyrenees that becomes a passionate journey of the heart.
• Captains Courageous - by Rudyard Kipling
• The Captive Mind - Examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
• Caribbean: A Novel - A magnificent novel that captures the eternal allure of that glittering string of islands and their tumultuous history
• Caribbean Mystery - by Agatha Christie
• The Cat's Table - by Michael Ondaatje
• The Cave - by Jose Saramago
• The Cellist of Sarajevo - by Steven Galloway
• Censoring: An Iranian Love Story - by Shahriar Mandanipour
• Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes - by William Kennedy
• Chekhov: The Essential Plays - A new rendition of Chekhov's four essential plays, by one of the most admired translators of our time.
• Chicken with Plums - by Marjane Satrapi
• The China Lover - by Ian Buruma
• The Circle of Reason - Traces the misadventures of Alu, who is falsely accused of terrorism
• The City of Thieves - by David Benioff
• Coastliners - by Joanne Harris
• Collected Stories - by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Complete Novels of Jane Austen - by Jane Austen
• The Complete Stories: David Malouf - by David Malouf
• Confusions of Young Torless - by Robert Musil
• Connemara the Last Pool of Darkness
• Consider This, Señora - by Harriet Doerr
• The Conversations at Curlow Creek - At once a mystery and a poetic meditation on the themes that occupy the silent center of our lives.
• Cost - Robinson tackles addiction and explores its effects on the bonds of family
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Dumas's grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason.
• Crime and Punishment - by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Set against the backdrop of a land and people riven by racial inequality and injustice, this story remains one of the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history.
• Dancing in Odessa - Winner of the 2002 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize
• Dancing to "Almendra" - Joaquín gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love
• Daughter of Fortune - by Isabel Allende
• Irène Némirovsky David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair - This one volume collects four of Nmirovskys earlier novels, many of them available in English for the first time.
• Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta - by Paul Theroux
• Dear American Airlines - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Death at la Fenice - by Donna Leon
• Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories - by Thomas Mann
• Devil's Star: A Harry Hole Novel - by Jo Nesbo
• The Disappeared: A Love Story - by Kim Echlin
• Doghead
• The Dogs of Riga - by Henning Mankell
• Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale - by Jorge Amado
• Down and Out in Paris and London - by George Orwell
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Barbery
• The Elephant's Journey - The tale of an elephant's journey from Lisbon to Vienna in 1551.
• The Elephanta Suite - by Paul Theroux
• Emma - by Jane Austen
• Enchanted April - The month these four women spend in Portofino reintroduces them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy
• Enchantress of Florence - by Salman Rushdie
• Eva Luna - by Isabel Allende
• Fairy Tales - by Hans Christian Andersen
• Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples - Weaves the intrigue of an elusive romance with the vivid and haunting evocation of a legendary metropolis
• Far North: A Novel - by Marcel Theroux
• Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You - by Fred Chappell
• Farming of Bones - by Edwidge Danticat
• Fencing Master - by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Fine Just the Way It Is:: Wyoming Stories 3 - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• The Fish Can Sing - by Halldor Laxness
• Five Quarters of the Orange - From the author of Chocolat comes a novel of a widow in her sixties returning to the French town she left as a child, and the clues to long-kept secrets she finds in her mother's recipe scrapbook.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - This masterpiece of time and place tells a profound and timeless story of courage and commitment, love and loss.
• Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy - by Olivia Manning
• The Full Cupboard of Life: Book 5 - by Alexander McCall Smith
• Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - A vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life
• Galapagos - by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Garden Party and Other Stories - by Katherine Mansfield
• Gate of the Sun: Bab Al Shams - by Elias Khoury
• The General in His Labyrinth - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Germinal
• Gertrude and Claudius - by John Updike
• Ghost of Chance - by William S. Burroughs
• Ghost Sea - A Kwakiutl warrior from B.C.'s wild northern islands raids an artifact collector's yacht to reclaim stolen sacred masks.
• Gifts - A tapestry of dreams, memories, family lore, folktales, and journalistic accounts
• Girl in a Box - by Sujata Massey
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played With Fire - by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - by Stieg Larsson
• The Given Day : A Novel - by Dennis Lehane
• The God of Small Things: A Novel - A richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
• Godfather of Kathmandu - by John Burdett
• Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague - by Curt Leviant
• The Good Husband of Zebra Drive: Book 8 - For Mma Ramotswe, there is rarely a dull moment, and in her newest round of adventures, the same certainly holds true.
• A Good Year - A fascinating tale of the hugely lucrative and competitive boutique-wine trade.
• Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish - Winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, a marvelously imagined epic of 19th-century Australia.
• The Grass Is Singing - by Doris Lessing
• Grotesque - by Natsuo Kirino
• Growth of the Soil - by Knut Hamsun
• Guiding Elliot: A Novel - by Robert Lee
• The Hakawati - by Rabih Alameddine
• Half a Yellow Sun - Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history
• Hav - by Jan Morris
• Here Is Where We Meet - by John Berger
• The Hiding Place - An exceptional novel about family, love, and the innocence and terror of childhood.
• The History of the Siege of Lisbon - by Jose Saramago
• Homecoming
• The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge.
• Hotel du Lac - by Anita Brookner
• House of Meetings - At a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt three lovers long after they are released.
• House of Spirits - The House of the Spirits marks the appearance of a major, international writer.
• House of War - by Hamilton Wende
• The Housekeeper and the Professor - by Yoko Ogawa
• How Green Was My Valley - by Richard Llewellyn
• How to Read the Air - New York Times Notable Book 2010
• Hummingbird House - Henley's powerful debut novel is the story of Kate Banner, an American midwife, who discovers the secret wars in Guatemala.
• I Curse the River of Time - An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of "Out Stealing Horses"
• I Love Dollars and Other Stories China - by Zhu Wen
• Ice - A work of fantasy, prophecy, parody, and wild paranoia
• Iceland's Bell - In 18th century Iceland, a man becomes a fugitive after being wrongly accused of murder.
• Ilustrado - by Miguel Syjuco
• Immortality
• The Immortals - by Amit Chaudhuri
• Imperfectionists - by Tom Rachman
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - by Daniyal Mueenuddin
• In the Company of Cheerful Ladies: Book 6 - Precious Ramotswe confronts a painful secret from her past
• In the Country of Men - A stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare.
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - by Peter Matthiessen
• In the Time of the Butterflies - by Julia Alvarez
• Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust - These stories cover a broad sweep of time, from the first shots of World War I to the plight of Balkan immigrants.
• The Inheritance of Loss - Takes readers to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency in Nepal challenges the old way of life--and opens up a grasping world of conflicting desires.
• Interpreter of Maladies - by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Interpreter of Maladies / Namesake - by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Invisible Cities - A remarkable meeting between legendary explorer Marco Polo and the great Kublai Khan.
• Irish Girls about Town - The Emerald Isle's most popular women writers
• Irish Writers On Writing - Celebrates one of the world's most vital literary traditions.
• Island Beneath the Sea - Allende's latest novel introduces yet another unforgettable woman--a slave and concubine determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.
• Island: The Complete Stories - by Alistair MacLeod
• Islands in the Stream - by Ernest Hemingway
• Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller - by Arnaldur Indridason
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - by Geoff Dyer
• Judgement Hill: A Novel - by Castle Freeman, Jr.
• Kafka On the Shore - by Haruki Murakami
• The Kalahari Typing School for Men: Book 4 - by Alexander McCall Smith
• Kalimantaan: A Novel - by C.S. Godshalk
• Kamchatka - by Marcelo Figueras
• Kim - by Rudyard Kipling
• King Bongo: A Novel of Havana - by Thomas Sanchez
• Kitchen - by Banana Yoshimoto
• The Kite Runner - An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
• Knots - A woman returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to find herself and reclaim her family's home
• Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong - by Paul Theroux
• Krik Krak - by Edwidge Danticat
• Kristin Lavransdatter V1 : The Bridal Wreath - Volume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.
• Kristin Lavransdatter V2: The Wife - A new translation of the second volume of the Nobel Prize-winning trilogy by Scandinavia's most beloved writer.
• Kristin Lavransdatter V3: The Cross - Volume three of the Trilogy
• Lacuna - by Barbara Kingsolver
• Land of Green Plums - by Herta Mueller
• Land of Marvels - by Barry Unsworth
• The Last Days of Dogtown - Peopled with widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, free Africans, and "witches," it resurrects a forgotten sector of society, set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s.
• The Last Empress - by Anchee Min
• Last Evenings On Earth - Fourteen haunting stories
• The Last September - by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Late George Apley - Charts the diminishing fortunes of a distinguished Boston family in the early years of the 20th century.
• The Lazarus Project - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Leaving Van Gogh - by Carol Wallace
• Let the Great World Spin - by Colum McCann
• Lieutenant - by Kate Grenville
• Londonstani - by Gautam Malkani
• Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina - An American reporter discovers that the tango may hold the secret to the country that is disintegrating before his eyes
• Long Song: a Novel - by Andrea Levy
• Lost City Radio - A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war
• Lost Man's River - by Peter Matthiessen
• Lotus Eaters - by Tatjana Soli
• Love and Obstacles: Stories - by Aleksandar Hemon
• Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Love Medicine - An authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience
• Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych
• The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet - by Reif Larsen