Fifteen years after the arrival of an anonymous postcard with the names of her maternal great-grandparents and their children-all killed at Auschwitz-Anne Berest is moved to discover who sent it and why and embarks on a journey to learn the fate of the Rabinovitch family.

Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.

""If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams . . . And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." The bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky returns with a strange, haunting, and deeply human tale. Sophie serves coffee at an underground cafe. She stays in the shadows and listens to the troubles of the parlor guests, but does not draw attention to herself for one simple reason: Sophie is supposed to be dead. When a nationalistic...

In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...

As the very fabric of reality loosens, liberating creatures of myth and legend, Rain, Elphaba's green-skinned granddaughter, and her companions hunt the fabled Oracle of Maracoor for guidance and soothsaying, hoping that the desperate wicked years will promise another day.

Thousands of years ago, the city of Athanor was set adrift in time and space by alchemists, the "Curious Men." Ever since, wherever it has manifested around this world, it has accumulated cultures, citizens and species, growing into a vast, unmappable metropolis. Isten and her gang of half-starved political exiles are scraping a living from petty crime and gangland warfare in Athanor's seediest alleys. Though they dream of returning home to lead a...

"Where Pigeons Don't Fly follows the story of Fahd, a young boy growing up in Saudi Arabia. Fahd's childhood is overshadowed by his father's involvement in the attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Now an artist and critic, the adult Fahd finds that, both in work and in love, he is at loggerheads with repressive cultural and religious norms. When he and his girlfriend are detained by the "virtue" police, Fahd contemplates a life of self-imposed exile...

"A bizarre plot, about love and crimes, talent and passion, destroying somebody's the identity and bringing out creativity. ... urban madmen and drunks, Russian nobles, exiles and convicts ... "--Translation, abridgment, and interpretation of the Russian description from the book.

When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the revelation of the island's sinister true purpose as...

"Word has come. Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story. Though her grief and rage may threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she sent away in shame and disgrace? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend and ally?...