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The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of ... -
The Darkness Before the Dawn - Ryan Hughes
Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to ... -
The City And The Stars - Arthur C. Clarke
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers... -
Shadowbred_ The Twilight War - Paul S. Kemp
Product Description_The Lady has spoken to me. It has already begun_. Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia. _“Be b... -
Prague pictures_ portraits of a - John Banville
FromHere is the latest installment in Bloomsbury's fascinating Writer in the City series, which matches well-known writers with cities with which they are intimately familiar. Banv... -
No country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
SUMMARY: Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selli... -
Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky
SUMMARY: The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their bou... -
Hidden Cities - Daniel Fox
From Publishers WeeklyThe conclusion of Fox's trilogy set in a magical version of ancient China (Dragon in Chains; Jade Man's Skin) mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless... -
Game of Patience - Susanne Alleyn
From Publishers WeeklyAfter A Far Better Rest (2000), an homage to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut p... -
Crypt of the shadowking - Mark Anthony
Product DescriptionThe evil Zhentarim attempt to take over the richest of the Caravan Cities, and Harper agent Mari Al'Marin and ex-Harper Caledan try to foil the wicked plot. By t...