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"A revolutionary fashion icon, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel can lay claim to inventing modern women's fashion. At the beginning of the twentieth century, she stripped women of their corsets, bobbed their...

Dans ce bref essai, Jacques Roncière affirme: " Mallarmé n'est pas un auteur hermétique, c'est un auteur difficile. " Ce qui est difficile, ce n'est pas de comprendre ce que Mallarmé dit dans ses...

From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in...

"The Greeks and Romans sacrificed to the gods of products that were part of their diet. All human food was therefore an ideal medium to get in touch with them and honor them. Was it to much "Feeding...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List PicksFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how...

An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three...

“Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning proof that Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. A beautiful, brutal, monstrous Hollywood fantasy.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, New...

Follow the siren call to Emily’s magical adventure!Can the spunky half-mer girl pass Neptune’s test—and help humans and merpeople get along?

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our...

Unable to sing after a traumatic assault, seventeen-year-old Lula travels to Venice with her ensemble where she studies the life and music of Italian composer Barbara Strozzi.

Is the history of the early Church the story of a movement away from the religion of the New Testament into Hellenic speculation, institutionalism, and bare moralism? Many present issues are affected...

Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of Inhuman Land.Interned with thousands of Polish officers in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, Józef...

Travel to the bright Caribbean for love, romance, and passion in this sizzling summer read from a nationally bestselling author and "Queen of the Summer Novel" (People). After uprooting her life in...

Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure—the first in the Invisible Library series!   One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much...

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TESSA THOMPSON AND RUTH NEGGATwo women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem...

A classic story of magic, mystery, and adventure in a fairy-tale world.Princess Irene’s great-great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. Curdie will not go alone though; she provides him with a...