A scout’s iconoclastic views of basketball, love, and American culture.

A young man’s quest to keep his hometown’s paper mill from closing turns into an odyssey across a rural upstate New York county.

The first complete English translation of Jules Verne's epic fantasy novel.

Three generations of Northern Appalachian women confront poverty, violence, and isolation.

A tragedy in early June sets off a cascade of deception for the summer people from Manhattan and the local teens on Grand Isle.

A literary love story.

A visionary journey into the crucible in which America was born, a tale of love and war and of a master shaman who folds time to seek the key to the survival of his people.

A new translation of a modern Yiddish masterpiece.

An American adventure in the Antonioni vein—visually rich and emotionally mysterious.

Depicts the Cultural Revolution through stories in a variety of voices.

--Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist’s long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris

Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.

The remarkable and true story of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern.

An insightful and often humorous tale of rural life and how an old house and its land can bring a broken person back to wellness.

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.

A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.

A wildly entertaining historical adventure, deep inside the crucible in which America was forged.

New, superbly translated omnibus of five of Jules Verne's most renown stories.

A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.

A tumultuous year in the life of a young surgeon during the Korean War.

An epic adventure based on the extraordinary historical story of Sir William Johnson and the author's dreams of a Mohawk "woman of power" who lived three centuries ago.

The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Fiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction.

One of the great utopian novels of the early modern period.

This sixteenth-century work has a modern sensibility, presenting characters' inner worlds and understanding love as the fullest realization of the individual.