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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) -
Su Bristow
The Fair Folk
From prize-winning author Su Bristow comes a fascinating coming-of-age novel about magic and the choices that define future generations. -
Su Bristow
Sealskin
Donald, a young fisherman, is overwhelmed when he comes across a group of beautiful women dancing on the shore beneath the moonlight. They are selkies — seals that shed their skin once a year to become human for a few hours. The decision he makes that night, to capture one of these selkies and... -
Fernand Braudel
Out of Italy
Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. -
Kazimierz Brandys
Rondo
In Rondo, a modern classic of European literature now available for the first time in quality paperback, Brandys gives us a compelling wartime narrative and an eloquent statement about political and personal exile suffused with a passionate, anecdotal warmth. One of the century’s great literary figures,... -
Shannon Bowring
In a Distant Valley
Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, In a Distant Valley sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in snowy Maine. -
Shannon Bowring
Where the Forest Meets the River
Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America.