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  • The Chinaman

    A Sergeant Studer Mystery

    by Friedrich Glauser ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Series series A Sergeant Studer Mystery
    “After reading Friedrich Glauser's dark tour de force In Matto's Realm, it's easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award is dubbed ‘The Glauser.’”—The Washington PostPraise for the Sergeant Studer series:“Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction.”—The Sunday Telegraph“In Matto’s Realm ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Three Comrades

    A Novel

    by Erich Maria Remarque ...
    Translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen ...
    From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front comes Three Comrades, a harrowing novel that follows a group of friends as they cope with upheaval in Germany between World Wars I and II.The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Stencil Man

    by Garry Disher ...
    A concentration camp—on Australian soil. Men are separated from their families by barbed wire. They have committed no crimes; they try to explain to their children that they're not in prison. It feels like prison. They’re told it’s only temporary, there are processes in train. Nothing changes. There are riots. Plans to escape. It is 1942. Garry Disher’s second novel is an unflinching look at an ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Pledge

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer—with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Berlin

    A Novel

    by Pierre Frei ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    A serial killer stalks the streets of post-World War II Berlin in this international bestselling thriller.Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been highly acclaimed. Ben, a German boy retrieving cigarette butts to repackage and sell on the black market, discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blonde and blue-eyed, she ... Read more

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  • Newcomers: Book One

    by Lojze Kovacic ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Empress and the Cake

    by Linda Stift ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
    Madness lurks behind the pretty façade of everyday life.An elderly lady offers a young woman a piece of cake. She accepts. The lady resembles the Austrian Empress Elisabeth and lives with her servant in an apartment full of bizarre souvenirs. More invitations follow. A seemingly harmless visit to the museum turns into a meticulously planned raid to steal a royal cocaine syringe. Without realizing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devoted Friend

    Stories

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket."Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Once a Jailbird

    A Novel

    by Hans Fallada ...
    For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release.Then he gets out.As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation, deceit, and, with one terrible act, he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cleaver

    A Novel

    by Tim Parks ...
    Why would a man who has it all suddenly turn his back on the world at the height of his power? A celebrated journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, Harold Cleaver has just trounced the president in a damning television interview. But balancing Cleaver's success is the unbearable scrutiny of his elder son's equally damning roman à clef, Under His Shadow. Overweight and overwrought, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Sleezy the Fox: Omnibus Edition

    by William Forde ...
    As a growing child, the one thing that I experienced in abundance was 'second chances.' In fact, I'd go as far as to say that without having had my fair share of second chances, my life would have taken a much different course. Second chances were my life saver!Not surprisingly, one of my favourite books was Victor Hugo's 'Les Misērables,' a story that was chiefly responsible for transforming me ... Read more

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