Still Life with Bread Crumbs

When a once-famed photographer heads for the hills into country life, she literally finds love among the trees, with a roofer able to expand the lens of her worldview.  A shining portrait of unexpected romance from Anna Quindlen (One True Thing).

Resurrection

Wolf Haas has forged one of modern noir’s best detective series in the adventures of Inspector Simon Brenner.  Readers can now relish tracing back to Brenner’s first big case: the suspicious death of two Americans atop an Alpine Village ski...

Space Survival

January 28: ” ‘Working the problem’ is NASA-speak for descending one decision tree after another, methodically looking for a solution until you run out of oxygen.”  

Boy in the Twilight

In thirteen stories of China’s closed quarters and shadowy paths, the joys and hardships of rural migrant life are captured in Yu Hua’s keen eye and compassion.

The Double Life of Paul de Man

One of the renowned literary theorists of his time, Paul de Man’s legacy was destroyed by revelations of his alligence to the Nazi Party.  Evelyn Barish deconstructs the deconstructionist, in this riveting story of a major philosopher’s dark...