We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live

Francis King

A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by "one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time." (The Scotsman) Antonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at a provincial English university. Handsome and charming, Antonio is irresistible to men and wome...

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...

Didion, Joan

El diario inédito de Joan Didion. Un libro extraordinario que completa un tríptico compuesto también por El año del pensamiento mágico y Noches azules. «Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qué estoy pensando, qué estoy mirando, qué veo y qué significa». En noviembre de 1999, Joan Didion empezó a visitar a un psiquiatra porque, como escribió a un amigo, su familia había estado ...

Didion, Joan

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years." She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.For several months, Didion recorded co...

Didion, Joan

Elogiada por Tennessee Williams y Joyce Carol Oates, recuperamos la mejor novela de Joan Didion. «Un logro extraordinario».Los Angeles Times Una liturgia común (1977), la novela más lograda de Joan Didion y uno de los íconos de la novelística del siglo XX, es la historia de una tragedia personal y política que sucede en Boca Grande, un imaginario estado centroamericano dominad...

Didion, Joan

Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, narradas con la inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva que caracteriza su obra. «Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas».The New York Times Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su Cal...

Didion, Joan

Una colección atemporal de algunos de los primeros artículos y crónicas de la icónica escritora y periodista norteamericana. «Una excelente introducción a la aguda mirada de Didion sobre la vida estadounidense.»Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post «Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qué estoy pensando, qué estoy mirando, qué veo y qué significa.» Lo que quiero decir recopi...

Didion, Joan

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding ...