A national bestseller from the "prolific and exceptionally insightful" (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, Difficult Women is a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America. Difficult Women tells of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky...

Praised as "a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement" by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O'Neill's first novel invites comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens. Jim Mack is a naïve young scholar and the son of a foolish,...

Press review A new intriguing where victims and perpetrators are linked by fate, from the collection The Love Crimes. Presentation Editor Herman and the beautiful, noble and proud Ernestine, two young lovers, are struggling with loans libertines in all - to satisfy their desires...

"Madame la Comtesse de Lorsange was one of those priestesses of Venus whose fortune is the product of a pretty face and much misconduct, and whose titles, pompous though they are, are not to be found but in the archives of Cythera, forged by...

Intent on leading a life of virtue, our heroine of the piece sets out to make her way in France. What befalls her is anything but virtuous. One after the other, at the hands of brigands and harlots, mad monks and rabid dogs, corrupt...

Justine was an early work of the Marquis de Sade, written while imprisoned in the Bastille. It contains relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing. Napoleon Bonaparte called Justine "the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination." Bonaparte...

Courval has asked Florville to may him. Florville decides that before she can marry him she must confess all of her sins to him so that they will have no secrets. The tales are sordid and come together in an entirely unexpected way for...

"When numerous critics have all pointed to the stunning mastery of dialogue evinced in [Sade's] novels, to say nothing of the truly theatrical disposition of many of the scenes-erotic or otherwise-this would seem to be linked to the theatrical obsession that persisted so disturbingly...

"When numerous critics have all pointed to the stunning mastery of dialogue evinced in [Sade's] novels, to say nothing of the truly theatrical disposition of many of the scenes-erotic or otherwise-this would seem to be linked to the theatrical obsession that persisted so disturbingly...

This rich, titillating translation of the famous French novel Crimes of Passion loses none of its original flavor. The Marquis de Sade's tales are ripe with seduction, passion, and ultimate tragedy as his characters quest for love but find only its crimes. Sade not...

"An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy--all pale beside Juliette."--Library Journal

A fairy tale for any age, Jen Wang's The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart. Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Publication for TeensWinner of the Harvey Award for Best Children or Young Adult Book Paris, at the dawn of the...

Benji & and Clyde were unknown farm boys living in poverty in 1928, but by 1929 they were the most notorious teen bank robbers in history. They were the youngest in a world of gangsters and Tommy guns, but by the end of their...

Mad as a Hatter: The F.B.I. shows up on the doorstep of Graymoor Mansion looking for Marshall, but they aren't seeking to arrest him. They've come to hire him. Over a period of weeks, a series of murders have been committed that all have...

Brendan has been an active jock his entire life, but he's no longer an eighteen-year-old high school quarterback or even a twenty-two year old football player for Indiana University. He's fifty-two and the years are beginning to show. Brendan does his best to meet...

Friends and family gather in stately Graymoor Mansion to celebrate the holiday season, but a blizzard traps them in the massive Victorian home Christmas Eve and all of Christmas Day. To entertain themselves, the guests take turns sharing their Christmas memories and special holiday...

Brendan is beginning his college football career at Indiana University in Bloomington, but his relationship with his high-school-age boyfriend, Casper, is strained. Brendan knew parting from Casper would be tough, but he didn't count on the temptations of a major Midwestern university. He's surrounded...

The Summer of My Discontent is a tapestry of tales delving into life as a gay teen in a small Midwestern town.Dane is a sixteen-year-old runaway determined to start a new life of daring, love, and sex-no matter the cost to himself, or others....

New York Times' best-selling author Una McCormack delivers a breathless, stirring tale of bravery, love, passion, and the desire to be free, set against a strictly hierarchical MarsIss, a humble kitchen slave who likes to tell stories, finds herself caught up in perhaps the...