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  • Under the Skin

    Michel Faber

    Paperback (Harvest, July 1, 2001)
    In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory—our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.
  • Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America

    Ivan Doig

    Paperback (Harvest, Oct. 20, 1982)
    The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.
  • Aristotle'S Children Pa

    Richard E. Rubenstein

    Paperback (Harvest, Sept. 20, 2004)
    Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient ideas sparked riots and heresy trials, caused major upheavals in the Catholic Church, and also set the stage for today's rift between reason and religion. In Aristotle's Children, Richard Rubenstein transports us back in history, rendering the controversies of the Middle Ages lively and accessible-and allowing us to understand the philosophical ideas that are fundamental to modern thought.
  • The Little Prince

    Katherine Woods, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    Paperback (Harvest, Jan. 1, 1971)
    A pilot is forced down in the Sahara where he meets a strange little prince from another planet
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  • Jacobs Room

    Virginia Woolf

    Paperback (Harvest, June 23, 2008)
    Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I. Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow
  • Roads To Santiago Pa

    Cees Nooteboom

    Paperback (Harvest, Feb. 21, 2000)
    Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year love affair with his adopted second country. He presents a world not visible to the casual tourist, by invoking the great spirits of Spain's past-El Cid, Cervantes, Alfonso the Chaste and Alfonso the Wise, the ill-fated Hapsburgs, and Velázquez. Be it a discussion of his trip to the magnificent Prado Museum or his visit to the shrine of the Black Madonna of Guadalupe, Nooteboom writes with the depth and intelligence of an historian, the bravado of an adventurer, and the passion of a poet. Reminiscent of Robert Hughes's Barcelona, Roads to Santiago is the consummate portrait of Spain for all readers.
  • A Perfect Peace

    Amos Oz

    Paperback (Harvest, Oct. 31, 1993)
    “Oz’s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.” —Washington Post Book WorldIsrael, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country’s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic “outsider” seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly, strikingly universal.“[Oz is] a peerless, imaginative chronicler of his country’s inner and outer transformations.” —Independent (UK)
  • The Great Stink Pa

    Clare Clark

    Paperback (Harvest, Oct. 2, 2006)
    Clare Clark’s critically acclaimed The Great Stink “reeks of talent” (The Washington Post Book World) as it vividly brings to life the dark and mysterious underworld of Victorian London. Set in 1855, it tells the story of William May, an engineer who has returned home to London from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job trans­forming the city’s sewer system, he believes that he will be able to find salvation in the subterranean world beneath the city. But the peace of the tunnels is shattered by a murder, and William is implicated as the killer. Could he truly have committed the crime? How will he bring the truth above-ground? With richly atmospheric prose, The Great Stink combines fact and fiction to transport readers into London’s putrid past, and marks the debut of a remarkably talented writer in the tradition of the very best historical novelists.
  • All Change

    Roger Day

    Paperback (Harvestime, July 6, 1991)
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  • Dear Mem Fox, I Have Read All Your Books Even the Pathetic Ones: And Other Incidents in the Life of a Children's Book Author

    Mem Fox

    Paperback (Harvest, March 31, 1992)
    The internationally acclaimed children’s book writer, on herself and on the art of writing and publishing children’s books.
  • Hands Off

    Roger Day

    Paperback (Harvestime, July 6, 1987)
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  • A Good Man is hard to Find and Others Stories

    Flannery O'Connor

    Paperback (Harvest, March 24, 1983)
    This is the book that established Flannery O'Connor as a master of the short story and one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic, situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four year old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy.