"When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower may just be the end of life as they know it, six couples--friends, exes, crushes and rivals--must take shelter. Inhibitions are abandoned, confessions are made and love blossoms, but what happens when the world doesn't end? Filled with humor, heat and hope, this riveting collection of interconnected multicultural stories by acclaimed authors Lane Clarke,...

"Through her three story collections and two novels, Elizabeth Crane's singular literary vision has created worlds of characters standing boldly in the face of their complicated circumstances. Blazing through states, cities, towns, continents, Crane fearlessly pivots from micro to macro, humor to tragedy, past to present, mixing an off kilter sensibility with a heartbreaking reality, guiding us into the fringed and often fantastical lives of her characters....

This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic tale of upended evolution in which redemption depends...

"Civilization has fallen.Everyone who survived the plague lived through the Fall, that terrible autumn when life as they had know it ended in blood and chaos. Now nuclear submarines are facing sudden and unimaginable crises. Paid hunters on a remote island suddenly cut off from any support. Elite assassins. Never made it retirees. Bong-toting former soldiers. These are their stories. These are the Voices of the Fall. Thirteen new stories set in the...

"Farah, adolescente, a toujours connu L'Église de la Treizième Heure pour la bonne raison que Lenny, son père, en est le fondateur. Elle vit en communauté dans cette Église millénariste un peu spéciale : féministe, queer, animaliste. On y récite Nerval ou Rimbaud. Lenny rassemble ses ouailles autour de messes poétiques et d'ateliers de déparasitage psychique. La Treizième Heure, c'est aussi l'heure de la révélation, du triomphe des pauvres,...

Desde las polvorientas calles de Jerusalén hasta los pasillos oscuros del Kremlin en Moscú, La Marca lleva a los lectores por un emocionante viaje a través de la historia, la religión y la política, con una combinación perfecta entre acción, suspenso y misterio que mantienen la tensión hasta el final del libro. La Marca es una novela intrigante donde las páginas pasan volando, ya que entrelaza los sucesos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial con...