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Set in New Mexico over a long, hot summer, this powerful debut novel is a story of homecoming and coming of age, of unspeakable loss and hard-won reconciliation.

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In an expatriate's world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore.

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Already major award winners, these novellas reveal Gurganus's range as a storyteller whose work surges with the force of history and human personality. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

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With stunning clarity, sensitivity, and precision, Minot captures the voice of a terrifically funny and innately wise little girl, who has a reckoning with death and comes instinctively to what remains: love and, through it, life.

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In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, "The Voyage" is an intricately plotted and gripping story of adventure and courage. It is also a timeless novel about the dangerous side effects of long-held family secrets.

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The novel that Bambara was working on at the time of her death in 1995 is a story that puts readers at the center of the nightmare of the Atlanta child murders. When Zala Spencer realizes that her child Sonny is gone, she and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search to find him in a city that roils with political, racial, and class tensions.

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The long-awaited novel from the acclaimed author of "Bad Behavior" is a dark fairy tale set in Paris and Manhattan in the 1980s--a story about beauty, narcissism and appetite, transience, aging and mortality.

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A unique collection by an extraordinary writer, this collection of Carver's best spans his literary career and includes seven new works. Since his untimely death in August of 1988, Raymond Carver's popularity has increased dramatically.

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The author gives voice to characters on both sides of the Mexican border, from a young girl harboring special secrets to a witch woman circling above her village.

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Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting pot.