The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
10 best books like The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (Isaac Babel): Lost Children Archive, Brute: Poems, A Good Fall, Back in the World, Great Short Works, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith, The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faithless: Tales of Transgression, Dancing After Hours, Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A...
| Author | Emily Skaja |
| ISBN | 1555978355 |
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from...
| Author | Ha Jin |
| ISBN | 0307378683 |
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
With the...
| Author | Tobias Wolff |
| ISBN | 0679767967 |
To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0060586974 |
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060610352 |
How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an authentic...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0812974778 |
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In...
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060933577 |
An emotional and somewhat depraved read, I've had an exceptionally difficult time putting my feelings about this anthology into words. I've done my best to try and come back to this review all articulate and concise. But...I...just can't!!
There are a lot of stories in this collection and...
| Author | Andre Dubus |
| ISBN | 0679751149 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and...
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0241303931 |
A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This...
Maigret et la jeune morte
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 2253142409 |
Maigret bâilla, poussa les papiers vers le bout du bureau. – Signez ça, les enfants, et vous pourrez aller vous coucher. Les « enfants » étaient probablement les trois gaillards les plus durs à cuire qui fussent passés par la P. J. depuis un an. L’un d’eux, celui qu’on appelait Dédé,...
