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A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance. Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal...

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of...

In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZEIN LITERATURE 2013Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in &';The Bear Came Over the Mountain&' the basis for Sarah Polley&'s film Away From Her  her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her...

A NovelThings arent going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, whats more humiliating, his wifes prospects at her job are pretty good. Richie knows hes a good salesman, but he just cant seem to land an account. And hes starting to drink again. And worry about whether Paulas seeing that old high school flame,...

In her debut novel, Torch, bestselling author Cheryl Strayed weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. "e;Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!"e; is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has...