Two women with dreams of renewal arrive in a Buenos Aires teetering on the brink of disaster.

The author of Tree of Smoke follows a railroad man's journey through a mythic America.

The suffering and sacrifice of a city under historic siege.

The tormented life of jazz legend Chet Baker.

In the latest from the D.C.-based novelist, an ex-Marine takes center stage.

Two people try to find love together despite themselves.

A music critic sees too much of the past in our present.

A murder on an island in the Aegean attracts the attention of a very unorthodox detective.

African-American troops returned from World War I to find a new battle waiting  at home.

A sly -- and sometimes dark -- bohemianism infuses the grown-up fiction of the Moomintroll creator.

The legendary sci-fi writer's growth from high school student to master of imagination.

A committee's choice rocks a city in a novel that confronts questions of grief and the ownership of memory.

Murder haunts the waves in Don Winslow's followup to The Dawn Patrol.

From the author of The Fermata, a headlong dive into surreal sexual hijinks.

An obituary writer and his avian companion face down corruption and murder in post-Soviet Russia.

The rise of China's capital city may be the story of a new era.  And it isn't over yet.

The unlikely origin and surprising legacy of Donkey Kong's nimble hero.

A novel traces the ordinary—and extraordinary—challenges of life as a New England veterinarian.

In the pursuit of love, a hapless hero goes hunting Bigfoot.