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Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja's Last Love
Radiation level warnings be damned! Baba Dunja is going home, to her town right near Chernobyl. She and her motley crew of neighbors create an idyllic post-meltdown settlement——until a dangerous stranger shows up and annihilation once again looms. -
Alina Bronsky
Just Call Me Superhero
An atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin and a vivid portrait of youth under pressure, Just Call Me a Superhero is destined to consolidate Alina Bronsky’s reputation as one of Europe’s most wryly entertaining and stylish authors -
Alina Bronsky
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
"Rosa Achmetowna, the frightening narrator of Bronsky’s dark and wily latest (after Broken Glass Park)... is absolutely outrageous, a one-woman wrecking crew with no remorse, an acid tongue, and a conniving opportunist’s sense of drive and desperation. Bronsky lands another hit with this hilarious,... -
Alina Bronsky
Broken Glass Park
"A riveting debut...Sascha's hunger for life shines through her relentless fight to leave behind a painful childhood."—Publishers Weekly (Starred) -
Jesse Browner
Everything Happens Today
Everything Happens Today is funny, moving, generous and exhilarating. It will enchant young adults who see themselves in the story as well as adult readers who will be captured by the deeply sympathetic characters and the acute feel for the way we live now. Most readers will want it never to be... -
Ben Byrne
Fire Flowers
August, 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruin. Satsuko Takara and her teenage brother Hiroshi have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo. Hal Lynch, a haunted U.S. reconnaissance photographer, is now a photojournalist... -
Andrea Camilleri
The Sect of Angels
Based on a true story and told with the pacing, humor, and thrills of a Mediterranean mystery, Andrea Camilleri’s new novel tells of a turn-of-the-century Sicilian scandal that revealed a tendency that is with us still: the refusal to accept the truth. The lawyer and journalist Matteo... -
Andrea Camilleri
The Sacco Gang
A "wild west" tale of two brothers who battle both the state and a mafia empire in 1920s Italy, from famed Italian author Andrea Camilleri. -
Andrea Camilleri
The Revolution of the Moon
From Andrea Camilleri, author of the Inspector Montalbano series, comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup after only 27 days. -
Paolo Cangelosi, Nathalie Tocci
My Path to Becoming
Born in Genoa in 1960, Paolo Cangelosi began the practice of Ju Jitsu at the age of eight and two years after that met Master Fu Han Tong, a fascinating and charismatic Kung Fu master who practiced his art alone in a workshop in the center of Genoa. The young Cangelosi responded to the harsh teachings...