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"Fresh... solid... full of suspense and intrigue." -- Publishers Weekly Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in... See More
World Literature
From the National Book Award-finalist: This "brilliant" story collection exploring the lives of dispossessed Americans is "one of his best achievements" (The Washington Post). Thematically focused on hard-luck characters... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
An American film editor is caught up in Europe's drug underworld in a "spare and cinematic" character study by the award-winning author of Soldier's Joy (Time). Tracy Bateman eeks out a meager existence as a freelance... See More
Literary Fiction
The National Book Award-finalist movingly examines the lives of a group of New Yorkers deeply affected by one woman's troubled life -- and death. Marian is haunted by an unspoken past reflected in the choices she makes... See More
Literary Fiction
The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell's masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution-the first successful slave revolution in history-which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist... See More
Literary Fiction
Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell's Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his... See More
Literary Fiction
A Vietnam vet returns to rural Tennessee in this acclaimed novel from the National Book Award-nominated author of Save Me, Joe Louis. After the horrors of Vietnam, Thomas Laidlaw returns to his home in rural Tennessee... See More
Horror
O Magazine?s Top 20 Books to Read This Summer! "In this searing hallucinatory novel set partly in a lunarlike desert, Bell captures a mood of sexual menace, tracing the fates of a teenage girl and her birth mother as they... See More
Literary Fiction
Two small-time thieves get in over their heads in this literary thriller from the "virtuoso novelist" and author of Soldier's Joy (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Not quite at home in the backwoods of Tennessee, and even less... See More
Genre Fiction
Seven men tell their stories of survival on the streets of 1980s New York City in this gritty debut novel by the National Book Award-finalist. Like most New Yorkers, Johnny B. Goode hustles to make a living. His beat... See More
With a writer's keen eye, a longtime resident's familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe... See More
World Literature
The definitive collection of nonfiction -- from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing -- from the "legend of American letters" (Vanity Fair) Robert Stone was a singular American writer, a... See More
Historical Fiction
An "exhilirating" novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award-finalist and author of Straight Cut (The New Yorker). As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in... See More
Short Stories
Charlie Chapo is the Haitian nickname of an American traveler who's tried to adopt Haitian culture as his own. At dawn on January 12, 2010, he walks into the hills above Port-au-Prince as an earthquake lays waste to the city... See More
World Literature
A story collection spanning New York to Haiti and beyond from the National Book Award-finalist and author of Barking Man. Spanning twenty years, Bell's third collection of stories showcases his phenomenal literary range... See More
World LiteratureA "brave, accomplished and utterly compelling" short story collection from the National Book Award-finalist author of Zig Zag Wanderer (Kirkus Reviews). Deploying a seemingly unlimited range of subject and setting, Bell's... See More
Short Stories
Available exclusive to the Kindle, the protagonist of Bell's Prey trained dogs to protect their keepers, and Maggie, a mixed breed, was stocky, strong, and fiercely loyal. But then he met the woman who bought the dog... See More
Literary FictionThe Fall 1988 issue of Ploughshares, guest edited by George Garrett. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Poetry & DramaThe Winter 1993-94 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Russell Banks & Chase Twichell. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions... See More