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A NovelAllan Gurganus&'s Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heoines in American literature.Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen...

A Tale of Seventh-Century JerusalemWhose rock is enshrined inside the golden Dome of Jerusalem? The rock of Moses or of Muhammad? Kanan Makiya gathers together the stories, legends, and beliefs that define the Rockthe place where Adam landed in his fall from Paradise and where Abraham attempted to sacrifice his first-born; where Solomons Temple...

A NovelOver the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter&'s night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Islandand a young...

Book 3 of Border TrilogyIn this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and...

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say Slum! because he could see no more. But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidads capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. Theres Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build the thing without a name. Theres Man-man, who goes...

From the writer whose voice Carolyn See has characterized as one of the strangest, most distinguished in American fiction writing today (There is really nothing to compare her with, except, maybe, the austere beauty of a Japanese rock garden), here is a richly dramatic novel about a woman struggling to make peace with herself as a mother, a lover,...