Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca’s much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, “the mistake”), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed.

Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, , Michael Cunningham’s masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of , comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise “their” child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.

A book for your head and your heart.

A powerful novel from one of Ireland’s best writers on the turbulent birth of a nation, and the lovers it divides.

Ireland 1945. Young and beautiful, Iz begins a life on the south-east coast with her new husband. As she settles in to try and make her life by the ever restless sea, circumstances that have brought Iz to the town of Monument are shrouded in mystery. However, history, like the sea cannot stay silent for long. The war in Europe is over, and change is about to brush away the old order. Soaring across the decades that follow Ireland’s newly won independence, sweeping across the fierce class issues and battles over land ownership that once defined Irish society, The Sea and the Silence is an epic love story set inside the fading grandeur of the Anglo-Irish class.

How many of them were there?

There were eight of them.

Eight desperate people.

What secrets did they share in common?

What could they possibly give to each other?

What horrible pressures drove them all to seek relief in the stark granite comfort station?

Who really cares enough to answer these questions?

J. Morgan Cunningham cares. He cares enough to drag you behind the scenes where no writer ever dared or wanted to go before. Into the famed 42nd Street Bryant Park Comfort Station! In his uniquely hilarious style he lays bare the hectic pace of modern rat-race life. Find out how really strange eight strangers can really be.

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of The Hours.

A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away — the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder — are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.

Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

Rašemen... tajemný domov barbara Fjodora, země, jíž vládnou wychlaran, které své nezvyklé schopnosti skrývají za propracovanými maskami.

Shakti... drowí kněžka Lloth, která číhá ve stínech Temných říší a plane nesmiřitelnou nenávistí ke všem, kdo kráčejí po povrchu Torilu.

Liriel Baenre... drowí princezna, která se nyní musí rozhodnout, jestli se s Fjodorem vrátí do jeho rodné země. Tam bude čelit největší zkoušce odvahy a na prchavý okamžik zahlédne to. co hledala po celý život – domov.