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The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère

"A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped by the tale of a …

Un caballero en Moscú by Amor Towles

Condenado a muerte por los bolcheviques en 1922, el conde Aleksandr Ilich Rostov elude su trágico final por un inusitado …

Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry

This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry …

The second coming by Walker Percy

The untouchable by John Banville

(From the Hardcover edition) Twenty years after his "retirement," ex-spy Victor Maskell attempts to come to terms with what has …

The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

The Cleaner by Mark Dawson

Spark: a novel by John Twelve Hawks

Jacob Underwood is a contract employee of the Special Services Section, a shadow department in the faceless multinational corporation DBG. …

The beginner's goodbye by Anne Tyler

"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, …

& sons by Gilbert, David

A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a …

Graham Greene by Graham Greene

The Son by Philipp Meyer

Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a …

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Savages by Don Winslow

Savages is a crime novel by American author Don Winslow, published in 2010. It was followed in 2012 by a …

The handle by Richard Stark