When the world goes mad, a blackjack dealer and an exotic dancer are mysteriously spared. But now they're trapped in Reno, surrounded by a veritable army of the undead - and with no idea what might wait for them beyond the city limits if they can escape. Are they the last man and woman on Earth? And if so, how long can they last?
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
Unnerved, Rebecca spills the whole frightening account of the abduction to her ex-husband and friend, Michael, who, dismayed by the story, vows to help sort out the mysterious texts and disturbing series of paintings.
Zeruya Shalev's electrifying new novel is at once a meditation on the state of modern Israel and a profound exploration of family, yearning, compromise and the insistent pull of the past.
Presents a collection of poems focusing on the border between the United States and Mexico.
Grief is a black house.
Chr. Wordsworth. THE TRACTS OF CLEMENT MAYDESTON WITH THE REMAINS OF CAXTON'S ORDINALE THE TRACTS OF CLEMENT MAYDESTON WITH THE REMAINS OF CAXTON'S.
Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.
Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes.
Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall ...
It was always the unseeingness of the eyes and the open mouth through which no breath passed. Theroom was hot and clammy and stank and,worst of all, itwas so waxily still. Merrily swallowed bile, and then something overtook her and she ...