The Stranger

Lee Onhwa

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's wil...

Xiaolu Guo

"A propulsive powerhouse of a read."--Marie Claire (UK) "Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on...

Jewell, Lisa

Discover the debut novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell in which the residents of an apartment building confront one another's attractions, distrust, secrets, and lies. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and Jojo Moyes.Welcome to 31 Almanac Road where the walls don't talk, but the people sure do. First, we have Ralph and Smith. Roommates and life-long b...

Lisa Genova

**National Bestseller** A "riveting page-turner" (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy.Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, n...

Rebecca Armitage

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she's about to finally...

Adriana Trigiani / Maclean, Sarah / Eloisa James / Elinor Lipman / Audrey Bellezza / Karen Dukess / Nikki Payne / Emily Harding / Diana Quincy

Celebrate Jane Austen's classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings. In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen's minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pr...

Camus, Albert

Este volumen resume la experiencia de Albert Camus, un escritor envuelto, durante cuatro años, en la vida pública de Francia, su país. Se encontrará en él una selección de los editoriales publicados en Combat hasta 1948.Se trata, pues, de un balance.En estas páginas, el lector reencontrará a un estilista impar, a un escritor extraordinario: Albert Camus (1913-1960), cuya obra f...

Camus, Albert

Camus toma la palabra. Todos sus discursos y conferencias (1936 y 1958), en su mayoría inéditos en castellano.«La libertad que debemos conquistar es el derecho a no mentir. Solo con esta condición tendremos razones para vivir y morir». Esta es la edición definitiva de los treinta y cuatro discursos públicos y conferencias que pronunció Albert Camus entre 1936 y 1958, en su gran...

Camus, Albert

Después de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1957, Albert Camus escribió una carta a su antiguo profesor en Argel, Louis Germain, sin el cual «no habría sucedido nada de todo esto» y le expresó todo su reconocimiento. El conjunto de la correspondencia entre estos dos hombres, nunca antes publicada integra, y un fragmento de El primer hombre donde apareció el personaje de...

Camus, Albert

El gran clásico acerca del pensamiento rebelde en la Edad Moderna, firmado por uno de los faros morales del siglo xxEn su clásico estudio del pensamiento rebelde, Albert Camus traza un recorrido que va desde la Ilustración hasta las revoluciones del siglo XX, pasando por movimientos como el anarquismo o el nihilismo. Polémico desde su publicación, el libro explora también e...

Camus, Albert

«No hay sino un problema filosófico realmente serio: el suicidio.» El mito de Sísifo es el ensayo fundacional de la filosofía del absurdo, una obra mayúscula que dio a conocer el gran talento de Albert Camus. Publicada en 1942, el mismo año que El extranjero, fue una de las primeras obras que revelaron al público la inteligencia y la sensibilidad del autor. El título del ens...

Camus, Albert

Las imborrables impresiones que registró Albert Camus en sus viajes por América del Norte y América del Sur durante los años cuarenta Publicado a título póstumo en 1978, Diarios de viaje contiene los apuntes que Albert Camus tomó durante dos periplos por América del Norte y América del Sur en los años cuarenta. Una primera parte describe su estancia en los Estados Unidos y ...

Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a cont...

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever.Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer a...

Kazud Ishiguro

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in...

Atwood, Margaret

A stunning deluxe edition for the fortieth anniversary of an unparalleled cornerstone of feminist literature, featuring the original cover art and a short, unpublished essay penned in 1986 by Margaret Atwood, "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times).In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a...