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Violence and tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants. To combat the threat, the United States has executed Operation Rampart: a...

It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified...

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Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another womans house. In Sera Dubashs home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture...

There are over thirty writers donating stories to this collection and they are among the best known, bestselling female fiction authors writing today. This is the perfect Christmas paperback for anyone who cannot wait for the next fix from...

Her unflagging skill at chronicling our times through vivid characterisation and dramatic narratives is...

The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Annie Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Jack and Ennis are two ranch hands glad to have found each others company. But companionship becomes something...

The new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of The Righteous Men, set against the backdrop of the worlds bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy...

This has really been a struggle to complete. Unlike The Da Vinci Code (that the publisher wastes no time in likening this book to on the cover) I really struggled to pick this book up again after I had put it down- it is no page turner. And, what...

An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his...

The windswept isle of Houat, off the coast of Brittany, is no picturesque artists colony. At the turn of the twentieth century, life is harsh and rustic. So why did Henry MacAlpine forsake London where he had been fted by critics and gallery owners,...

Australian McCullough (The Thorn Birds) portrays one of the creepiest serial killers in recent fiction in this intelligent shocker set in 1965 at an Ivy League university called Chubb located in Holloman, Conn. After an animal lab technician finds...

The final instalment of Isabel Allendes celebrated trilogy soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings, and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship, set in the swampy forests of...

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William Wiles is an easygoing thirty-something, a bartender who lives a quiet life alone until a serial killer singles him out not to kill him, but to force him to decide who the next victim will be. On his SUV Billy finds the first note: If you...

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers waiting room and his dying fathers bedside. Its...

A novel of tremendous sweep and pace about the American family in crisis and a tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara...

A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China and America. Extra portrays the grim plight of Granny Lin, an elderly widow without a pension, whose job as a maid...

When her grandmother learned of Ashimas pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the familys first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes For now,...

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books; intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed...