Our ebooks (442 Listed volumes)
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Carousel of Desire
Celebrated short-story writer, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's ( The Most Beautiful Book in the World) first full-length novel to appear in English is a literary tour de force, a magnificent cathedral of contemporary eroticism. The Carousel of Desire is a sexual and romantic saga told with... -
Alexander Maksik
Shelter in Place
Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America’s most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and... -
Alain Gillot
The Penalty Area
The Penalty Area is a heartwarming novel about overcoming adversity, making human connections, and playing the glorious game of soccer. -
Joan London
The Golden Age
Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold contracts polio and finds himself at The Golden Age, a sprawling children's hospital. But it's there that he falls in love: with poetry, and with Elsa. With tenderness and humor, The Golden Age tells a deeply moving story about illness and recovery, and about embracing... -
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Street Kids
Originally heavily censored, criticized by professional critics, and lambasted by much of the general public upon its publication, The Street Kids ' undeniable force led to it become universally acknowledged as a masterpiece by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo... -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Total Chaos
The mean streets of Marseilles. Three friends. Two homicides. A man who can't forget his past. With these elements, Izzo invents an entire genre. -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as "The Chinaman," starts to investigate. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Solea
The final book in the Marseilles trilogy. Ex-cop, loner, would-be bon vivant, Fabio Montale returns in the stunning conclusion to the Marseilles Trilogy -
Francesca Melandri
Eva Sleeps
Out of the struggles between the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria and the rich history that has resulted from this meeting of cultures, comes a story of family, passion, conflict, and forgiveness that embodies the history of nations. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Chourmo
Book two in the Marseilles trilogy. His cousin's disappearance drags Montale back onto the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles.