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By Paul Goldberg

ISBN-10: 1250079047

ISBN-13: 9781250079046

A DEBUT NOVEL OF bold ORIGINALITY, THE YID promises that you're going to by no means contemplate STALINIST RUSSIA, SHAKESPEARE, THEATER, YIDDISH, OR historical past an analogous manner AGAIN

Moscow, February 1953. per week earlier than Stalin's dying, his ultimate pogrom, "one that will endlessly rid the Motherland of the vermin," is in complete swing. 3 govt goons arrive in the midst of the evening to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct nation Jewish Theater. yet Levinson, notwithstanding an previous guy, is a veteran of prior wars, and his surprising reaction to the intruders units in movement a sequence of occasions either zany and lethal as he proceeds to collect a ragtag workforce to assist him enact a mad-brilliant plot: the assassination of a tyrant.

While the atmosphere is Soviet Russia, the backdrop is Shakespeare: A mad king has a diabolical plan to exterminate and deport his country's final Jews. Levinson's solid of not going heroes contains Aleksandr Kogan, a machine-gunner in Levinson's purple military band who has for the reason that turn into one in every of Moscow's most efficient surgeons; Frederick Lewis, an African American who got here to the USSR to construct smelters and stayed to paintings as an engineer, studying Russian, Esperanto, and Yiddish; and Kima Petrova, an enigmatic younger girl with a ranking to settle. And wandering throughout the narrative, like a loopy Soviet Ragtime, are such ancient figures as Paul Robeson, Solomon Mikhoels, and Marc Chagall.

As hilarious because it is relocating, as highbrow because it is violent, Paul Goldberg's THE YID is a tragicomic masterpiece of ancient fiction.

By Terry C. Johnston

ISBN-10: 0307755789

ISBN-13: 9780307755780

Johnston writes gritty, uncooked, historically-accurate frontier fiction. the following, he maintains the saga of the nice Indian Wars as veteran Indian fighter Seamus Donegan joins the search for loopy Horse, the elusive Cheyenne warrior leader who's placing the cavalry to disgrace. Johnston brilliantly recreates the boring Knife conflict of 1876.

By Ann Burton

ISBN-10: 1101219882

ISBN-13: 9781101219881

By Gore Vidal

ISBN-10: 0307784231

ISBN-13: 9780307784230

Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, inclusive of Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen iciness morning in 1861, while President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by way of bodyguards. the longer term president is in conceal, for there's speak of a plot to homicide him. throughout the subsequent 4 years there'll be quite a few plots to homicide this guy who has sworn to unite a disintegrating kingdom. remoted in a ramshackle White apartment within the heart of a proslavery urban, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting executive as Lee's armies beat on the gates. during this profoundly relocating novel, a piece of epic proportions and excessive human sympathy, Lincoln is saw by means of his household and his opponents. the forged of characters is nearly Dickensian: politicians, generals, White residence aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a spouse slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is without delay intimate
and enormous, stark and intricate, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of 1 of the nice ancient novelists.
With a brand new creation via the writer.

By Jeffrey M. Poole

Dragons, griffins, and BNPs (Bugs of Nightmarish Proportions). by no means of their wildest goals may perhaps they've got imagined what used to be in shop for them.
After studying he had inherited an immense mansion and an incredible tract of land from a reclusive set of kin, Steve and Sarah Miller choose to take a couple of days off to enquire their new-found fortune within the quiet inn city of Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho.
whereas taking stock of the massive manor, they find a distinctive set of doorways at the best ground. Mistaking them to be an ornate ornament, the doorways are by chance activated, offering the 2 new owners with a tantalizing determination: step via or forget about? What damage may be able to befall them by means of easily strolling via an open door? interest getting the higher of them, they step via, and either husband and spouse are despatched on a one-way trip to a land of unimagined wonder!
figuring out they have been now stranded on a global populated with creatures that are supposed to exist in basic terms in one’s mind's eye, they enlist the help of the neighborhood king and queen. Their issues proceed to enhance, in spite of the fact that, because it is printed their arrival have been lengthy foretold via an historic neighborhood prophecy, bestowing upon them the prestige of Royal Bodyguards to the younger crown prince.
caught on a international global the place legendary creatures abound, attempting to steer clear of being attacked through griffins, and hoping to provoke a dwelling, respiring dragon, the newly appointed babysitters needs to give you the chance to come domestic quickly prior to damage may perhaps befall the younger prince.
a few days it didn't pay to get up and about.

By Simon Scarrow

ISBN-10: 1468307630

ISBN-13: 9781468307634

The action-packed new novel that includes Roman military officials Macro and Cato from Sunday instances bestselling writer Simon Scarrow whereas centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing crusade opposed to the Parthians, their shipping send is nearly capsized through a tidal wave.

They slightly make it to the port of Matala in Crete the place they're surprised to discover a devastated city. An earthquake has struck the island, destroying its towns and killing millions. within the chaotic aftermath, huge bands of the island's slaves start to insurrection and native bandits, making the most of the slave uprising, urge the Cretans to overthrow the Roman management.

With some of the island's troops both killed or wounded throughout the earthquake, the governor of the province calls on Macro and Cato for support. Can they stream quickly sufficient to counter the uprising earlier than it sweeps the Romans from the island?

By Sharon Kay Penman

ISBN-10: 1429930098

ISBN-13: 9781429930093

A wonderful novel of the arguable Richard III—a monarch betrayed in lifestyles by means of his allies and betrayed in demise through history

In this fantastically rendered smooth vintage, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III—vilified because the sour, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes within the Tower—from his maligned position in background with a blinding blend of analysis and storytelling.

Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the middle of what heritage has referred to as The struggle of the Roses, Richard was once raised within the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. dependable to his associates and passionately in love with the only lady who used to be denied him, Richard emerges as a proficient guy way more sinned opposed to than sinning.

This fantastic retelling of his existence is stuffed with the entire attractions and sounds of conflict, the customs and lore of the 15th century, the trials of courtroom politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.

By Ellis Peters

ISBN-10: 1784080586

ISBN-13: 9781784080587

September 1140. It falls to Brother Cadfael to discover the nerve-racking fact in the back of the violent nightmares of a tender amateur within the Abbey of Shrewsbury.

By Sebastian Barry

ISBN-10: 1101173254

ISBN-13: 9781101173251

It's 1959 in Wicklow, eire, and Annie and her cousin Sarah reside and dealing jointly to maintain Sarah's small farm operating. unexpectedly, Annie's younger niece and nephew are left of their care.

Unprepared for the chaos that the 2 young ones necessarily deliver, yet nervously excited still, Annie unearths the interruption of her general lifestyles and her final probability at happiness advanced extra by way of the eye being paid to Sarah through an area guy together with his eye at the farm.

A summer time of experience, ache, satisfaction, and, finally, epiphany unfolds for either the youngsters and their caretakers during this poignant and exquisitely instructed tale of innocence, loss, and reconciliation.

By Eileen Chang

ISBN-10: 1590178351

ISBN-13: 9781590178355

An NYRB Classics Original

Set within the early years of Mao’s China, Naked Earth is the tale of 2 earnest kids confronting the awful realities of progressive switch. Liu Ch’üan and Su Nan meet within the nation-state after volunteering to aid within the new land reform software. wanting to construct a extra simply society, they're wondered and stunned through the brutality, slightly disguised corruption, and ruthless careerism they detect, yet then speedy silenced by means of the barrage of propaganda and public feedback that's directed at someone who seems to doubt a righteous reason. Joined jointly via the key in their universal dismay, they continue to be involved whilst Liu departs to paintings on a newspaper in Peking, the place Su Nan ultimately additionally strikes. whatever like love starts off to develop among them—but then a brand new around of purges sweeps throughout the progressive ranks.

One of the best and such a lot enjoyed of recent chinese language writers, Eileen Chang illuminates the darkish corners of the human lifestyles with a mode of disorienting good looks. Naked Earth, unavailable in English for greater than fifty years, is a harrowing story of perverted beliefs, broken souls, inner most loneliness, and terror.